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To: FJB who wrote (338959)	12/17/2009 6:01:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	9 Recommendations Respond to of 793843

I always thought it was myth that people would stay on unemployment as long as possible to max out benefits, but was definitely wrong. People are milking the system to their maximum benefit. Congress continually extending benefits is only keeping unemployment artificially high. No myth, and I found out yesterday to my amazement that benefits now run for 99 weeks, courtesy of this Congress. It's the ironclad law of economics in action: When you subsidize something, you get more of it. When you tax something, you get less of it.