PRESS RELEASE Dec 12, 2009 A new legislative advocate bill proposal called
" JOBLESS STUB 2009 TAX FREE ACT " (STUB meaning Stop Taxing Unemployment Benefits) has been
kick started by the Unemployment Gone Mad Community and is being launched to make All
Unemployment Benefits received in 2009 tax free. Coalition partnerships are currently
in the works to gather grass root support for Congressional Committee Action. The Gone
Mad opinion is 2009 lifelines deserve 100% tax free status during this 2009 New Depression
Blues year. Not just the current 2400 dollar deduction. The current IRS policy of leaving
the unemployed in a financial hole defeats the stimulus package objectives. Unfortunely there millions
of long term unemployed who will have a tax liability unless this travesty of justice is changed.
WE need to contact all of the power players below and
make our voices heard. We need more additional tax benefit relief passed
in the first half of 2010 before we are turn over to collection agency our credit ruined while being evicted forgotten and discarded in tent cities.