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Liar, liar, pants on fire, Governor McCrory

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UPDATED: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:36
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North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory recently justified cutting unemployment insurance benefits by saying they were so generous that out-of-state moochers were moving there just to get them. And that, said McCrory, was milking the state’s coffers dry. But he lied.

From a WRAL.com report on a recent McCrory TV interview:
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“We had the ninth-most-generous unemployment compensation in the country,” McCrory said. “We were having a lot of people move here, frankly, from other areas to get unemployment … People were moving here because of our very generous benefits, and then, of course, we had more debt.” http://www.wral.com/mccrory-cautious-on-unemployment-insurance-during-
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WRAL fact-checked McCrory and pointed out the following:
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Workers who move from other states but haven’t worked in North Carolina can tap their former state’s unemployment insurance, but those payments come from the state where they earned their wages. http://www.wral.com/fact-check-did-people-move-to-north-carolina-to-ta
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But wait, there’s more: It’s also quite doubtful that those who are eligible for unemployment insurance benefits are moving to North Carolina at all. From the fact check:
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Andrew Brod, an economist and researcher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, said that McCrory’s claim “defies reason.”

…(In November), Brod wrote a column relying on census data that showed fewer people were moving for any reason. Only a small percentage – somewhere between 2 and 3 percent – of those who do move, he said, moved because they were laid off. http://www.wral.com/fact-check-did-people-move-to-north-carolina-to-ta
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Yet when asked to back up his claim, a spokeswoman for McCrory told WRAL he had been “referring to personal stories he’s heard.”

But not everybody in North Carolina got a cut in benefits. As it turns out, one group of spongers just got a very nice Christmas present of government largesse: the very wealthy. Starting in 2014, low-income North Carolinians will be paying higher taxes in order to pay for a tax cut for the richest people in the state. ("North Carolina Just Gave Millionaires A Tax Cut, Raised Taxes On The Poorest 900,000 Working Families", http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/14/3161521/north-carolinas-ei
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