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Originally Posted by thesloppy
There's not a ton of apparent rhyme or reason to a lot of the state maximums.
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The strongest correlation has got to be with "influence of organized labor," especially those in the building trades. That is the major driving force behind sticking these costs onto employers through trust funds, UI charges, and the like.
Given the deeply political nature of this, you'd think that a functioning US Senate GOP would devise the obvious plan of having the feds "make up the difference" between state benefits and some arbitrary adequate-sounding amount that doesn't seem to threaten employers with this whole "they'll prefer to stay at home" angle. And that way, they could continue the obvious ploy of punishing Americans living in blue states, and rewarding those in red states, more or less, because of their great electoral loyalty. Because that's what we do now.