Should Taxpayers Continue Pumping Millions Into Unemployment Benefits for the Rich

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Statistically recently released through the Department at work, unemployment rates came by 0.4% to stand at 8.6% in November 2011. This means that around 13.3 million people within the U.S. continue to be unemployed. Many people however, have shown no interest in working but have been trying to get jobs. Their intention isn't to get jobs, but to keep a particular number of job applications to be able to enjoy certain benefits from the federal government. Congress therefore, walks a tightrope when creating the choice to continue extending good things about the unemployed, as there needs to be a balance between assisting people to make it through life and giving them incentives to do this.

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Your decision becomes even harder and divided when one considers the situation of Arlene Ackerman, an old School District superintendent who was removed from her job by the mayor over complaints that they wasn't properly handling the district's school affairs. After settling to depart her job in a very high buy-out clause, Arlene requested unemployment benefits and was permitted to pocket around $573 each week, as this is the most allowed in the State of Pennsylvania as unemployment benefits. These high benefits are quickly becoming an encumbrance to the State's taxpayers.

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The outrage against Arlene wasn't justified because, as Arlene put it, she wasn't taking anything that she had not earned. What the law states also fully backs her up because according to it, benefits aren't in line with the economic position or power of the claimant. This, therefore, implies that both the poor and wealthy folks are eligible for claim unemployment benefits.

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With the question of legality settled, required that arises is whether the entire process is fair. The reason being, aside from Ackerman, there are lots of other millionaires on the list of unemployed who enjoy unemployment benefits. For instance, in 2003, over 3,000 individuals with incomes of over $1 million received unemployment benefits. About 17 of these millionaires had reported incomes well over $10 million in one fiscal year.

These are the kinds of issues likely to appear for discussions when Congress meets for negotiations around the extensions of tax cuts on payrolls. Although the Democrats are earning efforts to avoid the ending of unemployment benefits, there is a lot of potential to deal with their plan from citizens, as the majority of the money is funded by taxpayers.

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