rssKyl: Unemployment Insurance a ‘Necessary Evil’
Monday, July 12, 2010 at 5:18 pm
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Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) is making a lot of waves with some highly controversial statements about unemployment insurance and tax cuts. Here’s Talking Points Memo’s Brian Beutler on Kyl:
The second highest ranking Republican in the Senate doubled down on a controversial statement he made this weekend, arguing in greater detail that tax cuts for wealthy people should never be offset by tax increases in other areas — but that unemployment benefits need to be fully paid for by either spending cuts or tax increases. In so doing, he claimed candidly that the very existence of unemployment insurance is a “necessary evil,” while tax cuts ought not be paid for by increases in order to make it easier to shrink the size of government.
“My view, and I think most of the people in my party don’t believe that you should ever have to offset a tax cut,” Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl told a handful of reporters outside the Senate chamber this afternoon. “That clearly reduced savings is a better way to offset increased spending than a tax increase is.”
On this, to put it mildly, Kyl is in opposition to most of the economic and political establishment, from both ends of the spectrum. Unemployment insurance is not a welfare benefit or a “necessary evil.” It is a federal insurance program, which helps guarantee that working Americans maintain a decent quality of life for themselves and their families during spells of joblessness. Virtually all Republicans support having an unemployment insurance system; where they differ with Democrats is in whether the spending should be offset or deficit-increasing. As for offsetting tax cuts with spending cuts or tax increases? Republicans very much support that, in principle if not always in practice.
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Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 9:57 pm
These GOP senators have no feeling for the unfortunate unemployed who are trying very hard to survive day by day. They are basically one big business machine as long as rich people or big business companies pay less tax which is usually not affecting small but most middle or lower income people.
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wait until these senators, or those who blame on the unemployed (those ignorant assholes who posted nasty comments and showed no sympathy) lose their jobs and see how it makes them feel when they can't find jobs for 6 or 9 months but having bills/rent/mortgages to pay…
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These Senators will never change they will be voted in AGAIN because they have the money to put them there. It is sad that they are able to hold so many in the palm of their hands and even if they are not voted in they still have money , homes, cars, credit cards and food on their tables. I for one am sick of worring the day will come when what goes around comes around for people like them..
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BIG BUSINESS OF COURSE AND THEIR SPECIAL INTERESTS!
SURE NOT AMERICAN FAMILIES!
In other words,they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them! ( BIG BUSINESS)
Selfishness is what Republicans are about. NOT AMERICAN FAMILIES!
WRITE THEM> CALL THEM> E-MAIL THEM
Remind the Republicans we are AMERICANS who can vote them out!
Then see if their BIG BUSINESS FRIENDS will help them!
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