[A-List] Unemployment and Tax Cut

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The unemployed and the underemploy ought to start a right to work union
to protect their civil rights, to weed out fraud and to pressure
government to adopt policies.  There are between 10 to 15 million
officially unemployed and another 10 million who have given up looking,
or those forced into early retirement at 50.  Plus another 20 to 50
million under-employed. It would be a powerful lobby with enough swing
votes in swing states.  For starter, how about a negative income tax in
the current tax package? Or a tax rebate, not just a limited time income
averaging, but a tax rebate equal to say 70% of your previous high
income before unemployment. If you made $100K last year and paid $30k in
taxes, you get back $70K this year if you are unemployed.  Unemployment
ought to be made to hurt the system than than it does the individual,
then you will be surprised how fast Congress will eliminated unemployment.

Henry C.K. Liu



Kathy in the Rocky Mountains wrote:
> I recently went to a Job Fair (first time for me) and almost all of the
> "employers" where scamming or selling something to the out-of-work and
> somewhat desparate job seekers.  The only honest employer that had
> something to offer was the Army.  They offered careers, salaries,
> training and education, etc.  Qualified people (young, healthy,
> intelligent) could get career positions through this employer.  This was
> in stark contrast to the one who never indicated that I would pay them
> 5K or more for them to help me do the work of finding a job ... Or the
> various commisioned sales jobs ... Or the truck driver job that really
> was selling expensive training in a field that is glutted and with
> future on-the-job restrictions that mean few would be reimbursed for
> their training.