This shows that their old argument that unemployment benefits discouraged people from working was a lie. They just want to give money to their supporters and base it on politics, not need or merit. Disgraceful.
red-state governors are allowing anti-vaxxers to leave their jobs and collect unemployment. Sloth! Dependency! Biden should condemn the notion that taxpayers should foot the bill for vaccine refusers. https://t.co/WsS88oUift
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 3, 2022
From the Washington Post Editorial Board | Handing out unemployment aid to people who refuse to get vaccinated (as at least five states are doing) is silly https://t.co/nOYZJ2ZvKH
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 2, 2022
Republicans used to complain about excessive unemployment benefits. Now they encourage sloth, @JRubinBlogger writes. https://t.co/hg2Ji8ZzVp
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) December 31, 2021
Iowa cut extended unemployments benefits in the spring, reasoning that they were disouraging people from working and not needed even during the pandemic.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 29, 2021
Now they’re extending unemployment benefits to those who refuse vaccine mandates meant to bring an end to the pandemic https://t.co/uPA1zd9wTz
As Dave Weigel would say, I've seen enough: the red-state rush to cut off aid to the unemployed did not do much if anything to create jobs, but did create vast, gratuitous hardship for millions of Americans 1/ https://t.co/O4FrE2icsR
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 20, 2021
Sad! 