Republican House Labor Committee chair John Kline (R-oligarchy)...
Kline also supports extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. So in his world, $830 billion to finance tax cuts for the wealthy is fine, but $12.5 billion to extend unemployment benefits for three months is too expensive.You could extend unemployment benefits forever at the same cost as making the plutocrats' tax cut permanent. Forever.
But that's not what liberals are asking. We want to extend benefits only so long as there's a large imbalance between available jobs and the unemployed. Now? There's record long-term unemployment not seen since before unemployment insurance existed - the Great Depression:
