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California employers could be hit with big tax bill for jobless benefits
LA Times ^ | March 24, 2011 | Marc Lifsher

Posted on 03/25/2011 10:33:04 AM PDT by twistedwrench

California's debt to the U.S. for covering its unemployment checks the last two years could reach $13.4 billion by the end of the year. If the loans aren't repaid by November, a payroll tax will kick in. It starts at $325 million next year and could rise to $6 billion.

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The unemployment insurance fund, insolvent since January 2009, relies on federal loans to pay jobless benefits. The debt is expected to hit $13.4 billion by the end of this year unless state lawmakers and the governor agree to raise payroll taxes, cut benefits or do some combination of both. An interest bill of $362 million is due in September.
1 posted on 03/25/2011 10:33:06 AM PDT by twistedwrench
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To: twistedwrench

I might be wrong but wasn’t it the Commie ‘RAT politicians in WASHINGTON D.C. who kept extending unemployment benefit extensions? Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of their hammer and sickle crowd?


2 posted on 03/25/2011 10:37:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you thought the lame duck Congress was fun, you're gonna love a lame duck Kenyan president.)
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To: twistedwrench

One minor problem with this, what happens to all the remaining companies in California when even the moving companies are driven out-of-state?


3 posted on 03/25/2011 10:39:21 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102

Their assets are confiscated, the owners are publicly hanged as capitalists and kulaks, and the rest of the population is enslaved to the ruling class.


4 posted on 03/25/2011 10:43:51 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: twistedwrench

No problem, I’ll just lay off a few more people adding to the problem. These people are doing this on purpose.


5 posted on 03/25/2011 10:44:26 AM PDT by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: pnh102
when even the moving companies are driven out-of-state?

Is it a trick question? Their cost of doing business goes down.

6 posted on 03/25/2011 10:46:11 AM PDT by listenhillary (Social Justice is the epitome of injustice.)
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To: twistedwrench

So after having California natives talk down to me, treat me like I’m stupid, sneer and mock me when I warned them this was coming I can only say: HA!


7 posted on 03/25/2011 10:59:36 AM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Tzimisce

As a California native and a California employer, I agree with you 100%


8 posted on 03/25/2011 11:04:29 AM PDT by twistedwrench
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To: twistedwrench

When the unemployment insurance per employee, exceeds the wages per employee, there will be NO EMPLOYERS, left in Comifornia.


9 posted on 03/25/2011 11:08:10 AM PDT by G Larry
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To: twistedwrench

They ought to go back 30+ years in the California legislature and find who voted to use our tax dollars to pay for anything that supported illegal immigrants as well as voted to use tax dollars in any fashion to gain favor in order to get reelected. Then everyone of those SOBs should be forced to forfeit their entire wealth and holdings to the pay the state back. This would include Brown and Davis. I know, the world isn’t perfect.


10 posted on 03/25/2011 11:13:03 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: twistedwrench

Employers in the People’s Democratic Republic of Kalifornia are welcome to move to Georgia as long a you bring jobs and capital with you.

Please leave most of the Kalifornians behind, though.


11 posted on 03/25/2011 11:17:21 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: twistedwrench

Just more incentive for those employers to pick up and leave the state


12 posted on 03/25/2011 11:18:49 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: twistedwrench

We have already paid, the problem is that there are hundred of thousands of government employees being paid for life to hand out money to people who never paid into the system.

Triple negative revenue.


13 posted on 03/25/2011 11:21:40 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: 23 Everest
These people are doing this on purpose

I know your right, but to what end? A state with a 3rd world populous and no tax base. It doesn’t make sense, yet look at the CARB regulations, AB32 mandates, pure destruction of California's economy.

14 posted on 03/25/2011 11:23:52 AM PDT by twistedwrench
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To: twistedwrench

Oh weely?


15 posted on 03/25/2011 1:12:35 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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