Higher unemployment benefits can be financed either by higher tax rate or increasing goods market competition.

更高税率或增加物品市场竞争能获得更高失业救济金。

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Portugal's austerity relies too heavily on higher taxes, though it has reduced unemployment benefits.

葡萄牙的紧缩财政过分依赖于高税收，虽然这种方法减少了失业救济支出。

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The proportion of part-time workers, for instance, is higher than it was a generation ago, but in nearly two-thirds of states part-time workers are ineligible for unemployment benefits.

比如，兼职工人比例比以前有所提高，不过接近三分之二的兼职工人没有得到失业保险的保障。

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While the unemployed may spend more as a result of higher unemployment benefits, those people from whom the resources are taken will spend less.

WSJ: Arthur B. Laffer: Unemployment Benefits Aren't Stimulus

Quite simply, there is no stimulus from higher unemployment benefits.

WSJ: Arthur B. Laffer: Unemployment Benefits Aren't Stimulus

The flaw in their logic is that when it comes to higher unemployment benefits or any other stimulus spending, the resources given to the unemployed have to be taken from someone else.

WSJ: Arthur B. Laffer: Unemployment Benefits Aren't Stimulus