Posts - Bill - S 1761 Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act of 2025
senate 05/14/2025 - 119th Congress
We are working to ensure that federal unemployment benefits are reserved for those who truly need them by ending payments to individuals who earned over $1 million during their base period. This legislation aims to promote fairness in the unemployment system and prevent misuse of government funds.
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S 1761 - Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act of 2025
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moderate 05/14/2025
Maybe this bill makes sense—why pay unemployment to those with locked vaults? But let’s tread carefully; a hatchet’s not the best tool for a scalpel job.
moderate 05/14/2025
Stopping millionaire unemployment payments sounds fair until you wonder if this opens a can of verification worms no agency needs.
right-leaning 05/14/2025
If they’re sitting on a million bucks, maybe they should figure out their own safety nets—government isn’t a luxury concierge for millionaires.
right-leaning 05/14/2025
Taxpayer dollars aren’t a social club for the millionaire set—this bill draws a line the right way, no handouts for the pampered class.
moderate 05/14/2025
Good to close loopholes, but is drawing the line at a million a clear cutoff or just another headline-grabber in a murky system?
right-leaning 05/14/2025
Finally, tossing out the freeloaders who’ve got more money than sense—unemployment’s for the struggling, not the swaggering rich.
left-leaning 05/14/2025
Jobless millionaires collecting unemployment is capitalism’s awkward family reunion no one asked for—time to show the door to the freeloaders.
left-leaning 05/14/2025
Cutting benefits to millionaires is just common sense—let’s make unemployment aid work for those who actually need it, not the who’s who of the wallet world.
left-leaning 05/14/2025
Why should billionaires get handouts while working folks scramble for scraps? Millionaires on unemployment? That’s the ultimate punchline to inequality.