Posted on 02/07/2011 8:59:35 PM PST by RobertClark
The Obama administration is proposing short-term relief to states saddled with unemployment insurance debt, coupled with a delayed increase in the income level used to tax employers for the aid to the jobless.
The administration plans to include the proposal in its budget plan next week. The plan was confirmed to Fox News late Monday by a person familiar with the discussions on the condition of anonymity because the budget plan is still being completed.
Rising unemployment has placed such a burden on states that 30 of them owe the federal government $42 billion in money borrowed to meet their unemployment insurance obligations. Three states already have had to raise taxes to begin paying back the money they owe. More than 20 other states likely would have to raise taxes to cover their unemployment insurance debts. Under federal law, such tax increases are automatic once the money owed reaches a certain level.
Under the proposal, the administration would impose a moratorium in 2011 and 2012 on state tax increases and on state interest payments on the debt.
In 2014, however, the administration proposes to increase the taxable income level for unemployment insurance from $7,000 to $15,000. Under the proposal, the federal unemployment insurance rate would be adjusted so that the new higher income level would not result in a federal tax increase, the person familiar with the plan said.
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More stimulant money?
Moving money around doesn’t help anyone in the long run
More treatment of the symptoms, rather than the disease(which he exacerbated), by the clueless Kenyan Commie.
Redistribution plain and simple. He’s said all along that was his plan.
We now pay people NOT to work for Years!
“short term relief”?? Given how things are going, that probably means at least 10 years.
And the redistribution continues :(
Short term relief means thru November 2012.
Cloward/Piven.
As long as the states are blue and as long as the jobs are government.
Yeah. Like sticking the goose’s head up its ass so you never have to feed it.
More of that walkin’ around money Ping.
The Obammunist uses O'reilly to toss softballs during Super Bowl celebration.
A pattern?
yitbos
Isnt this part of the problem?
Subsidize the badly run (Democrat) states so they can keep funding those Unions.
Good. Obama intends to put more people on the unemployment line — going for 20 percent in 2012. Woo hoo! Hope and change.
Is he quiting?
More stimulus... I mean sedative money.
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