Thu Feb 25, 2010 at 11:46:42 AM EST
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Senate President Steve Sweeney just came out swinging against Governor Christie's plan to cut unemployment benefits:
"The dead of winter is no time to leave New Jersey's unemployed out in the cold," said Sweeney (D-Gloucester/Cumberland/Salem). "This is not a plan to trim costs, it is a hit on families who right now depend on their unemployment checks to make ends meet. This is money that pays the monthly heating bill, puts food on the table or gets the gas in the car to go job-hunting. This idea is a total nonstarter that will not even find its way through the Senate doors."
Good for him. He also cautioned against the proposal to kill increased business taxes mandated by law due to the poor state of the unemployment fund:
"While I understand the concerns of business, we cannot paper over the fact that this increase is inescapable," said Sweeney. "Whether the pain is felt immediately or takes two years - the fund still must be able to meet the needs of the unemployed. Keeping money from going into the trust fund is every bit as wrong as raiding it." |
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