Joni Ernst: “I understand we have a need to protect our taxpayers, but we have a need to protect not only our men and women in…”

Fraud is not a victimless crime, either.

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.

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