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GOP senators warn they will oppose coronavirus bill unless ‘massive drafting error’ fixed
Fox News ^ | March 25, 2020 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 03/25/2020 12:01:10 PM PDT by jazusamo

Three Republican senators are warning that they will oppose the $2 trillion coronavirus response package unless a “massive drafting error” in the legislation, that they say will create an incentive for employers to lay off employees, is fixed.

Fox News is told the concern is that the current version could pay workers more in unemployment benefits than they're currently making, by sticking a $600 per week payment on top of ordinary benefits that are calculated as a percentage of income. This could disrupt the labor market further, the lawmakers warn.

"A massive drafting error in the current version of the coronavirus relief legislation could have devastating consequences: Unless this bill is fixed, there is a strong incentive for employees to be laid off instead of going to work. This isn’t an abstract, philosophical point -- it’s an immediate, real-world problem,” Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement.

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He said that they are working on an amendment to fix the problem that would mean that the maximum unemployment benefit is 100 percent of someone’s salary,...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nebraska; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bensasse; coronavirus; coronavirusbill; gopsenators; lindseygraham; nebraska; southcarolina; timscott; unemployment; ussenate
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To: madison10

Under this law, if I heard the fake news right, you would be eligible for UI if laid off due to the daramabug.


41 posted on 03/25/2020 12:55:41 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: jazusamo

Are Democrat provisions to guarantee voter fraud still in the package?


42 posted on 03/25/2020 12:58:37 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Blood of Tyrants

If you are making $250 your benefit is $87 + $600.


43 posted on 03/25/2020 1:04:26 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: rigelkentaurus

Yep, I posted last night that the Dems plan is to use this crisis to introduce Perma-Unemployment benefits (i.e., you make more money off government bennies than working, so why bother working?)


44 posted on 03/25/2020 1:10:07 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Jvette

Thank you for posting. There is so much all around of people acting like pigs near a trough, so your note was a welcome relief.


45 posted on 03/25/2020 1:10:20 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: willyd
I thought that was in the Pelosi bill that she caved on, not the Senate bill.

-PJ

46 posted on 03/25/2020 1:13:40 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

UNEMPLOYMENT payments were always intended as being a TEMPORARY help between jobs. It doesn’t pay the same as your net paycheck-—but you are NOT commuting to work—or buying lunches—or purchasing clothes, etc.

This kind of calculation is totally Democrat crap.

There would be NO incentive for people to go back to work.

Worse than the current welfare & ‘DISABILITY ( ???) payments.

There are already too many ways that people are scamming the system & NOT working at all & living higher on the hog than many who ARE working when things are normal.


47 posted on 03/25/2020 1:14:50 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: rktman
“error”?


48 posted on 03/25/2020 1:17:08 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (There is not a climate bedwetter who is not a total hypocrite.)
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To: mdmathis6

He said for some it’ll work out to $24/hr

Meanwhile I doubt anything will go to the self employed, because they’re not ‘unemployed’ when no one buys their stuff, they don’t stand in unemployment lines.


49 posted on 03/25/2020 1:41:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: hal ogen

Agreed these things should be a few pages long but with 100 Congress critters and 535 House reps that is alot of legislators PLUS their staff that can put stuff like this together.

Add in wide margins, double spaced lines, and all these HUGE section titles and you get to 500 pages in no time.


50 posted on 03/25/2020 1:46:19 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Gasshog

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Careful Nomad! You’ll blow a circuit!

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51 posted on 03/25/2020 1:59:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: rigelkentaurus
"Not a drafting error. It was intentional by a Rat is my assumption."

BINGO! Notice how "drafting errors" and so-called "mistakes" always favor the DemonRat agenda, never the conservative agenda.

52 posted on 03/25/2020 2:17:48 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: TexasGator

No, you would get the max state payment, $275 + $600 in federal payments, even if your last job only paid $450 a week.


53 posted on 03/25/2020 3:11:45 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: TexasGator

Assuming that $450 a week would get you max payment. I don’t know what the actual number is.


54 posted on 03/25/2020 3:13:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: basalt
this unemployment payment is for 4 months only...both sides have completely embarrassed themselves with this thing...

Yep.

55 posted on 03/25/2020 5:01:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“No, you would get the max state payment, $275 + $600 in federal payments, even if your last job only paid $450 a week.”

You are a known troll so I should ignore you. But you are so wrong.

According to the official Tennessee web site the benefit would be ....

$84.00


56 posted on 03/25/2020 5:19:58 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Assuming that $450 a week would get you max payment. I don’t know what the actual number is.”

Translation: BoT is trolling.


57 posted on 03/25/2020 5:21:05 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

Pound sand asshole.


58 posted on 03/25/2020 5:24:48 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: TexasGator

That’s still a hell of a lot more than $450 a week, isn’t it?


59 posted on 03/25/2020 5:28:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: TigersEye

this is how republicans lose the argument...dems were gettin hammered about what they tried to pull the last few days...and republicans give them the hammer right back over these unemployment payments..unreal. This goes only to workers that were LAID OFF!!!... a 2 TRILLION DOLLAR package and they are worried about 600 dollar payments to laid off workers??...there goes any chance of getting the house back...dems and media will bludgeon them with this....


60 posted on 03/25/2020 5:36:12 PM PDT by basalt
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