Joni Ernst: “We need to protect the taxpayers against fraud. We want to make sure that the dollars are going to those small business…”

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 —…

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.

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