Joni Ernst: ““There’s no reason heating and cooling equipment should be treated differently from virtually every other product,” said…”

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

In 2024 alone, 10,100 million-dollar earners received nearly $97.4 million in unemployment compensation. That amounts to each being paid $9,650, roughly the cost of a new Rolex watch.

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.

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