Joni Ernst: “These programs are phenomenal, and I have heard from a lot of Iowa small companies that have utilized this process to…”

While government boondoggles abound, the term is now officially in the law books for the first time. No politician wants their prized pet project to carry that label, but now there's no escaping it.

Watt’s fair is fair—and passing these costs on to Iowans isn’t.

In Iowa, we believe in a simple rule: you plug in, you pay up.

Because unemployment programs are funded primarily by taxing employers, this federal mandate is effectively a reverse Robin Hood tax that takes from struggling small businesses to give to the idle rich and self-sufficient.