Joni Ernst: “I would say probably 98 percent of the comments we got were how they were impeding innovation and productivity.”

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.

My message to the affluent finance bros being cut off from Uncle Sam's unemployment trust fund is simple: If you are fortunate enough to make $1 million or more per year without having to work, then you should be counting your blessings —…