Ray From Cleveland
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tRust a tRumpling to miss the point.The very fact that you think that's a lot of money makes my point. Thanks.Why are wages so low that an extra few hundred dollars a week is more than folks make while working?Millions are going to lose their unemployment, thanks to the Trump/GOP bulshit.
Read and weep for all those who are effected by this bullshit incompetence!![]()
A gap in federal unemployment benefits is now unavoidable. Here’s why.
State offices will need weeks to reprogram their systems to account for an extension of the $600 weekly federal payments that expire on Saturday.www.politico.com
Not paying people more to not work than to work is going to put a kink in your plan to wreck the economy for November 3, huh?
It's $600 a week, not a "few." A few would probably be OK.
Think about it. $600 a week is $30,000 a year. That's in addition to the State unemployment. No one should ever make more from government for NOT working than WORKING.
I realize destruction of the economy is actually your goal and you won't accept any answer, but that is the answer to your question
I don't know what I can tell you, you're stupid as all get out.
Here's what I said, "one should ever make more from government for NOT working than WORKING"
Here is your completely inane reply, "The very fact that you think that's a lot of money makes my point. Thanks."
My point was that it's enough money that a lot of people earn less. Whether it's "a lot of money" or not, the reality is that over half of them don't earn that. Which means we're paying a lot of them more to not work than to work. How stupid are you?
Can't follow a simple post and respond to it lucidly. You actually think you responded to my post, don't you, nit wit? You're yet another government school educated failure, aren't you?
An extra few hundred dollars should not be enough when added to the meager unemployment benefits most states pay to total more than the employee makes while working.
Both the fact that it is and the fact that you so readily accept it are serious problems.
I know people who collected unemployment here. On average, they were getting around 400 bucks a week from the state. Add the feds contribution in, that's comparable to making 60K a year when you consider the payroll taxes you're not paying.
There are a lot of people making less than 60K a year, so don't tell us that people are not making more money unemployed than when employed.
Again, the problem isn't that they're getting more from unemployment than they would make by working, but that their wages are too low to begin with. $1000 per week isn't $60,000 per year, it's $50,000. Subtract 15% withholding, plus income tax from that amount and it's down to around $37,000 net.
The "American Dream" 2-storey house in the suburbs, two cars in the garage, decent schools and a nice two week vacation, now costs $120,000 per year, so we're not talking luxury money at $1000 per week.
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Working Americans made the USA the wealthiest country on earth. It's time for them to get their fair share of the income they generate by their labour, instead of ALL of it going to the top.
By the time you would pay all those taxes like Medicare, Social Security, FICA, state and local taxes, yes, what unemployed people are getting is what people are getting making 60K a year.
We don't have a government that sets wages for workers, we have a free market system to do that. If you want to earn more, you need to get the education or skills to make more. You might have to do a job you really never cared to do. You might have to relocate or be on the road, you might have to give up the pot or whatever drugs you use, you might have to work an undesirable shift for a while, but it can be done with a little effort.