Republicans Want To End Unemployment Benefits The Jobless Stay Home and Play Video Games
The republicans will soon be retaking control of the government, and thank God for that! We need common sense free market solutions to these times of economic distress. The Democrats have let us down so we must turn to good old fashion conservative ideals like these:
If compassionate politicians are really serious about lowering unemployment, the first two things they should do is eliminate unemployment benefits and abolish minimum-wage laws. Follow that with slashing the corporate tax rate to 10 percent (for starters), and unemployment would very quickly become an anachronism.
As written by Robert Ringer http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125504
The idea behind stopping unemployment extensions is that the jobless won’t look for work if the government sends them a check every week. They will just sit home playing video games. Listen buddy, nobody asked to get laid off and businesses are not hiring right now. An unemployment check does not pay for the $1,000 plus a month for family health care premiums. What kind of sick individual are you anyway?
But you are right about one thing, stop unemployment benefits and the unemployment rates will drop to full employment levels. That’s because there won’t be any unemployment claims to count. No claims no unemployment. Problem solved.
Now that you left the unemployed with no stop gap emergency source of cash to keep them alive, you want to compound the problem by abolishing the minimum wage. So should an unemployed person find a job, he still won’t have enough cash to keep him and his family alive. This is really, really sick.
Now that you have driven the middle class worker into the grave, why not slash the corporate tax rates so that the owners of the businesses that are not hiring, or paying less than minimum wage when they do, can be drowned in cash for doing absolutely nothing. Contrary to what you think, they are not going to hire anybody in this country with their new found fortune (even at the slave wages you propose). It might do wonders for employment in China, but not here.
By the way, the tax rate for corporations is 30% because they can shelter so much of their income that you have to have a high rate to apply on the unsheltered amount in order to get them to pay an effective tax rate at about the 10% level. Cut the rate to 10% and I’ll be paying more taxes than Exxon Mobile.
Your plan does not even take into account the skyrocketing debt it would produce. Don’t try to tell me tax cuts pay for themselves and then some. That’s proven to be false. But the biggest problem with your plan is that it depends upon working peasants like me to go along with it. Us working peasants are not gonna go along with it. Read the book A Tale of two Cities to see how the peasants will react to your plan.
And remember, there are way more of us than there are of you.
