Anonymous
Post 03/01/2025 08:44     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guess we'll add some speed cameras to afford more bike lanes to show we deserve to be a state.


Yeah, but only some people have to actually pay the full price of the tickets.


Seriously: who cares about this? Would you rather make less money so you pay lower tickets? Probably not, I assume? You could also just not speed, and not have to worry about it. I got a speed camera ticket. Once. After that, I decided I didn’t want to pay any more stupid fines. Why are people here so outraged about this ticket proposal?


Why are we upset that the law is discriminating against people?
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 20:54     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:I believe federal worker unemployment benefits are paid for by the federal government (they reimburse states for this).




Love how everyone just ignored this because they are so desperately hoping DC becomes insolvent
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 20:52     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guess we'll add some speed cameras to afford more bike lanes to show we deserve to be a state.


Yeah, but only some people have to actually pay the full price of the tickets.


Seriously: who cares about this? Would you rather make less money so you pay lower tickets? Probably not, I assume? You could also just not speed, and not have to worry about it. I got a speed camera ticket. Once. After that, I decided I didn’t want to pay any more stupid fines. Why are people here so outraged about this ticket proposal?
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 20:08     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guess we'll add some speed cameras to afford more bike lanes to show we deserve to be a state.


Yeah, but only some people have to actually pay the full price of the tickets.


What do you mean?


DC is implementing a pilot program that would permit low income drivers to pay only half the fine for a traffic ticket. There’s a whole other thread on this.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 17:00     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:You file for UE benefits where you work, not where you live. DC will be on the hook for all the UE workers losing jobs en masse. Where is DC going to get the money? Huge losses in income tax revs. Property values may get slammed, so big losses in RE taxes. Commerical properties may sink too. Many of the people who'd file for UE benefits live in VA or MD. DC seems like it is going to get hit so badly the bond rating might crash. Many of the jobs are never coming back either, so it's not like there will be the same level coming back during a "recovery". They're literally closing agencies permanently or relocating them out of the DMV.


IDK, maybe they will incentivize some of the new golden visa rich foreigners to move to DC to open businesses in empty offices and buy the RE? Supposedly 250K of them are literally clamoring to come to the USA.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 16:48     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guess we'll add some speed cameras to afford more bike lanes to show we deserve to be a state.


Yeah, but only some people have to actually pay the full price of the tickets.


What do you mean?
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 16:00     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
I believe federal worker unemployment benefits are paid for by the federal government (they reimburse states for this).


Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 12:20     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:"Many of the people who'd file for UE benefits live in VA or MD."

Just so that everyone is clear, employers located in DC pay unemployment taxes to the DC government, so of course the claims for benefits are made to the DC government, regardless of where the employee works.


That should be "lives."
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 12:20     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
"Many of the people who'd file for UE benefits live in VA or MD."

Just so that everyone is clear, employers located in DC pay unemployment taxes to the DC government, so of course the claims for benefits are made to the DC government, regardless of where the employee works.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 10:08     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
We all pay unemployment insurance in our paychecks. Some never have to use it. So there is some funds there, but with the massive amount of claims, those funds will
likely go to hiring more employees and upgrading the system to handle claims.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 10:00     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:Guess we'll add some speed cameras to afford more bike lanes to show we deserve to be a state.


Better yet add speed cameras to the bike lanes. And stop sign cameras too. Good revenue solution!
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 09:35     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Anonymous wrote:Guess we'll add some speed cameras to afford more bike lanes to show we deserve to be a state.


Yeah, but only some people have to actually pay the full price of the tickets.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 09:25     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Guess we'll add some speed cameras to afford more bike lanes to show we deserve to be a state.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 09:18     Subject: Re:Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
Our pathetic, incompetent city government needs to somehow come up with a plan to address the mammoth problems Trump's layoffs are going to cause DC.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2025 08:27     Subject: Unemployment payments - DC obliterated?
You file for UE benefits where you work, not where you live. DC will be on the hook for all the UE workers losing jobs en masse. Where is DC going to get the money? Huge losses in income tax revs. Property values may get slammed, so big losses in RE taxes. Commerical properties may sink too. Many of the people who'd file for UE benefits live in VA or MD. DC seems like it is going to get hit so badly the bond rating might crash. Many of the jobs are never coming back either, so it's not like there will be the same level coming back during a "recovery". They're literally closing agencies permanently or relocating them out of the DMV.