Republican governors are supporting the unvaccinated with unemployment

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.

Now they’re extending unemployment benefits to those who refuse vaccine mandates meant to bring an end to the pandemic https://t.co/uPA1zd9wTz

— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 29, 2021

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