People are going to be straight up fucked come tax time in 2010. I doubt anyone on unemployment seriously planned for having to pay taxes on that money; and I further doubt that anyone on extended unemployment would even be able to.
You have to pay taxes on unemployment benefits?
yeah, but if you're unemployed for an extended period of time, it is very doubtful you'll even owe any federal income tax.
If your income is somewhere around the poverty level, that may be correct. But for the rest of us, earning just half our income still puts us in SOME tax bracket.
