rssHawaii’s 2007 Tax Cut Turned Into a 600 Percent Increase in 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 at 5:09 pm
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In 2007, under the stewardship of Republican Gov. Linda Lingle, Hawaii reduced the unemployment tax rate on employers under the guise of encouraging job growth — despite the fact that, at the time, Hawaii’s unemployment rate was 3.1 percent.
Now that the unemployment rate is 6.9 percent, and people are applying for unemployment benefits at a record pace, Hawaii has a problem: a state law that triggers an automatic tax increase to cover shortfalls in the unemployment system. And whatever money Hawaii’s employers saved during the boom employment times, they’re about to have to repay in spades. The per-employee tax to fund unemployment benefits will go from $90 to $1,070 per worker this year — absent legislative intervention — to cover systemic shortfalls.
Lingle is now calling for lawmakers to limit the per-employee tax increase to 60 percent, a $54-per-employee increase. Does anyone think that employers saved enough on the tax cut from 2007 to 2009 to make up for the current need for a massive increase?
But don’t hold your breathe waiting for Republicans to start screaming about how massive tax reductions led to larger deficits in the end. These days, only spending can lead to deficits.
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Comment posted February 9, 2010 @ 7:49 pm
Lesson from Hawaii that Repubs are likely to take away? Don't allow laws which call for automatic tax increases. Their myopia is truly unbelievable…
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Comment posted June 23, 2010 @ 6:43 pm
yea jim your making like what 12.00 to sit in one of them office.what would u know about working.and where i live the close lowe is like 60 miles so if i get like 8.00 a hour.ill pay like 60 dollars a week in gas boy ill be bring home big buck
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