Why are unemployment benefits taxed and corporations (skidmore)

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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Apr-12-11 07:30 AM
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Why are unemployment benefits taxed and corporations and b/millionaires given loopholes
   
Edited on Tue Apr-12-11 07:32 AM by Skidmore
that you can drive jumbo jets through? Why is SS income taxed? What is the rationale for taxing people who don't have jobs or may be largely underemployed?

Edited to add: It makes no sense as to use taxation as a disincentive to be in those categories when all policy is to force people out of the labor market.

My head hurts. Get a clue shit stain.

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[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Who the hell "drives" a jumbo jet?

[franksolich]

My head hurts. Get a clue shit stain.

The skidmarked underwear primitive is a symptom of what's the matter with Iowa, once one of the most-reliably red states in the country, but since circa 1972 undependable, when all those things that made Iowa a great state began to erode.

And it's not getting any better in Iowa, the bluer they get.

I dunno exactly what happened, but it seemed to start with the surprise defeat of the then-incumbent U.S. Senator Jack Miller (R) that year, one of the three biggest upsets of 1972 (the others being the surprise defeats of Margaret Chase Smith (R) in Maine and Gordon Allott (R) in Colorado), three giants brought down by petty little men.

The skidmarked underwear primitive, in her early 60s,  is a disconsolate farmwife in the eastern part of the state, chronically unhappy that life has been (for her) what life has been, rather than what the skidmarked underwear primitive thought it should be.

Iowa when red used to be crammed full of happy, fulfilled, friendly, tolerant, open-minded, cherubic people; now it's full of bitchy old grouches.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Apr-12-11 07:30 AM
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Why are unemployment benefits taxed and corporations and b/millionaires given loopholes

To quote a profound philosophical observation from The Wizard of Id many years ago, "Remember the Golden Rule:  Whoever has the gold, makes the rules."

 

[Tucker]

How can one be underemployed and collecting unemployment? Sounds to me like fraud.

[Freeper]

madfloridian  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 09:42 AM
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12. Social Security has already been taxed once.   Updated at 3:31 PM
   
Why double tax it?

So you oppose estate taxes too, right?

[true_blood]

How can one be underemployed and collecting unemployment? Sounds to me like fraud.

That's what DUmmies and liberals look for. "Loopholes" as they like to say.

[Evil_Conservative]

How can one be underemployed and collecting unemployment? Sounds to me like fraud.

Actually you can.  I thought it was odd too, but the state allows it.

I was laid off in November from my full-time job.  I was working part-time seasonal at Macy's during Christmas.  I was able to get unemployment still.  They just deducted my normal weekly amount with what I made at Macy's.  If that makes sense.

[NHSparky]

Why are unemployment benefits taxed

Same reason Social Security is taxed.  Same reason tipped employees are taxed not on what they are actually tipped, but on percentages of sales, whether they get tipped or not.

Uh, for those DUmmies who haven't yet figured it out:

Got TRILLIONS in debt?  Thank Democrats!