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Senate Passes Unemployment Extension, Home Buyer Tax Break
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Posted on 11/04/2009 4:13:07 PM PST by traumer

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To: org.whodat
The Rino’s are on the move, digging the hole deeper.

They are focusing on what they are best at and promoting it the best they can.

Good business tactics don't you think? /s

21 posted on 11/04/2009 4:44:31 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: JoSixChip

Yes...know how you feel....after working for 40+ years, paying LOTS of taxes.....and watching the leeches....we’re not feeling too guilty.


22 posted on 11/04/2009 4:49:48 PM PST by goodnesswins (Tagline, oh tagline, whereart thou?)
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To: goodnesswins

No doubt your husband had unemployment taxes taken from his salary every single week he worked.

The employer had no problem taking it from his paycheck, so it should be just as easy to collect when you are fired.


23 posted on 11/04/2009 4:52:02 PM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: traumer

Sure, why not? It’s only funny money Obama-bucks anyways, right? Doesn’t he get it from his personal stash? Isn’t that what the sheeple begging for handouts in Detroit think?

Time to move to Texas, everyone. I’m in Oklahoma. Not bad here, either.


24 posted on 11/04/2009 4:57:19 PM PST by Rugged Individual (Who is the world's smallest minority? I am. I am an individual.)
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To: Carley
No doubt your husband had unemployment taxes taken from his salary every single week he worked.

Possibly in some states, but FUTA is an employer tax, not an employee tax.

25 posted on 11/04/2009 5:01:58 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Carley
The employer had no problem taking it from his paycheck

The "employer" had a choice???

26 posted on 11/04/2009 5:05:37 PM PST by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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To: traumer

I am amazed at how many people here have no problem bailing out Wall Street banks but have a big problem helping those who really need it, the unemployed.

That was the only part of the stimulus bill I was for, and that was before I found myself int he ranks of the unemployed as I do now.


27 posted on 11/04/2009 5:17:36 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Obama, Hitler, Stalin: Who are 3 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
DC has created a nation of unemployed lazy couch potatoes, having spent two years paying them, feeding them, and giving them free healthcare.

They're called "Pookies".

28 posted on 11/04/2009 5:18:59 PM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
...also significantly expanding a homebuyer tax credit that was championed by Republican U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia.

29 posted on 11/04/2009 5:24:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: traumer

We should not only cut off the slackers entirely, we should move to seize all their televisions, cars, cell phones and everything else we think might get a good price at an auction. My answer to the problem of “unemployment” is pretty simple: GET A JOB and stop asking for hand-outs.


30 posted on 11/04/2009 5:32:47 PM PST by USALiberty
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To: nascarnation

99 weeks of unemployment checks on the wall, 99 weeks of checks, you take one down and pass it around, 98 weeks of checks on the wall ...

EVERYONE SING !


31 posted on 11/04/2009 5:35:30 PM PST by staytrue
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To: Red in Blue PA

The ‘wall street banks’ should have eaten it.

In your case, ‘unemployment’ was extorted from your pay, you deserve it.

When Providence and personal responsibility became taboo subjects in public school and on the street is when the hook was set.

Don’t let the commies turn us against each other.


32 posted on 11/04/2009 5:36:18 PM PST by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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33 posted on 11/04/2009 5:36:51 PM PST by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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To: USALiberty

Every dollar received from the government was taken from another American.

FUTA wages pay for some of this and SUTA for others. Sad as Texas is running out of SUTA funds so they (and other states have joined in this) will now have to increase the percentage paid by a company, meaning companies will have less to hire others due to tax increases.

We’ve become an unmoral and unethical nation. We cheat the tax man not realizing that we are cheating our neighbor and then tell the neighbor how we’re cheating!! Our home appraisal is based on sales of other homes with upgrades and additions not on the tax role so we are “hosed” when they take their money and run.

“Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” It’s not just words to recite without thinking, it’s the Lord’s prayer.


34 posted on 11/04/2009 5:48:22 PM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: nascarnation

And those of us that we’re self-employed are screwed for twice the time.

No benefits since Obama put us out of business and continue the punishment for another 50.


35 posted on 11/04/2009 5:51:28 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT 2006; now living north of Tampa Bay)
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To: glock rocks

“The employer had no problem taking it from his paycheck”

Actually the employer paid for it out of the companies pot.


36 posted on 11/04/2009 5:54:43 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT 2006; now living north of Tampa Bay)
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To: George from New England

In my state, the employer has no choice about paying into the unemployment fund. Think of it as taxing corporations. You cannot tax corporations. You can tax the consumers through the corporations.

Employees get paid less because the corp pays unemployment charges to the guberment for safe keeping (or a quasiguberment org as in my state). Same diff. Nanny crap for those insufficiently schooled in self sufficiency (i.e. anyone born after the FDR admin.


37 posted on 11/04/2009 5:58:53 PM PST by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I’m not against unemplyment checks, I think 2 years is excessive though when it is only supposed to last 23 weeks. The money comes from somewhere and America is broke.


38 posted on 11/04/2009 6:10:08 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: traumer

Why are states with lower unemployment excluded?

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems whatever federal dollars are allocated for this should go equally to all states.

Why should people have a more or less favorable tax position based on what state they live in?


39 posted on 11/04/2009 6:11:28 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: chris_bdba
The money comes from somewhere and America is broke.

Broke? Why, we'll just print more! </zero>

40 posted on 11/04/2009 6:12:55 PM PST by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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