[GonzoGOP]

Nobody is using lawn services now btw. 2 years ago I’d agree with you, and you could might even get by ok doing it. Not now.

That goes to my point about getting small business going. If the cost of extending benefits is tax increases then it is counter productive. If we get people back to work they will start buying luxury services like lawn care again. We have to break the Increased Benefits => Taxes => Business Destruction => Unemployment cycle. We are faced with a series of choices that range from hard (limiting benefits to reduce the tax burden) to suicidal (high tax European style nanny state). The cycle sucks the life out of the economy and it will continue to suck worse until we break out of it. So we should choose the option that breaks the cycle soonest, rather than the one that holds off the Armageddon of suckiness the longest, but renders its eventual arrival inevitable.

[Tolsti2]

These benefits are a drop in the bucket compared to the stimulus and so on. I highly doubt it’s causing any worse ‘hardship’ on business or tax payers than the far, far larger spending that goes on all the time.

This isn’t a matter of ‘go get a job’ if the market dries up. Trust me, I was panicked when the benefits were running out cause I saw it coming and tried absolutely everything I could, and it was all for nothing.

If they cut off UI benefits you’d see no hiring increases. You’d have a drastic amount of people falling into apermanent lower class (millions and millions). This is not what anyone wants or needs and will make things farrrr worse.