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Since Republicans are always claiming how they’re anti-tax, and friend to the little man, I’d like to take a moment to remind everyone of last March, when Rick Perry decided to reject $556 million in additional federal funds for unemployment because it had “too many strings attached”. What those strings were for of course was to provide unemployment for more people and using a better measure to determine pay. Oh, and that half a billion dollars? It was an interest free loan.

Fast Forward to today, when CNN has run the following:

Texas is one of the hard-hit states. Though its unemployment rate is a relatively low 8.3%, jobless claims have soared. In December, Texas paid 330,000 residents a total of $325.7 million, up from 228,000 people claiming $216.8 million a year earlier.

The state began borrowing from the feds in July to pay unemployment benefits and now owes Washington $1.6 billion, said Ann Hatchitt, spokeswoman for the Texas Workforce Commission.

So employers in the Lone Star State will have to pay at least $64.80 in tax per worker this year, up from $23.40 a year ago. This is the highest rate in 20 years.

“After having a period of high demand on the unemployment trust fund and rising unemployment, we had to set the rates for 2010 to replenish the trust fund,” Hatchitt said.

So, to recap: Rick Perry who says that taxes are bad mmmkay turned down $556 million for jobless Texans because he didn’t feel that more Texans needed to be able to eat,provide for their families and have a roof over their heads. As a result, Texas has had to borrow 1 and a half billion dollars from the federal government, all of which we’ll owe interest on. Oh, and to cover our shortage? We’re gonna almost triple unemployment taxes on businesses.

Now I know that conservatives like to forward on to their families, friends, enemies, people they once talked to on an elevator lots political emails. Well, I’m asking everyone to pass around this one. I want to see the outrage that comes from a man screwing over Texas workers, families and businesses to garner favor with the Tea Party crowd. Anyone who professes to believe in honesty and lower taxes should realize that they cannot in good conscience vote for this man.

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