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1936 › Alf Landon (Republican) › Unemployment insurance
Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it
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Solution
Encourage 'honest and practical' State unemployment insurance laws; repeal the federal payroll-tax device that forces States to adopt systems.
Rationale
'For the Federal Government to step in and to use its taxing power to compel all of the States immediately to enact unemployment insurance statutes is something unheard of.'
Statements (2)
We propose to encourage adoption by the states and territories of honest and practical measures for meeting the problems of unemployment insurance.
For the Federal Govern ment to step in and to use its taxing power to compel all of the States im mediately to enact unemployment in surance statutes is something unheard of. It is most unwise.
Follow-through
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The federal tax-offset device remained; all 48 States had unemployment laws by mid-1937 under it, the reverse of Landon's plan.
Reception (1)
Landon would keep a federal tie to old-age pensions but throw unemployment insurance back to the 48 States, ignoring that States would not act alone.
His pro posal is to throw unemployment back to the 48 states absolutely.
Other positions on this issue
- Unemployment insurance under state laws — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 specific_pledge
- Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes — Norman Thomas, 1932 specific_pledge
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