Smaller unemployment checks, bigger tax cuts, medical marijuana :: WRAL.com

Raleigh, NC – The Senate proposal is heading towards the required votes this week, and the tax cuts it includes will have a much bigger impact than previously thought.

The cuts in corporate and individual tax rates would cut $ 5.2 billion more from the budget over five years – a total of $ 13.9 billion in that time – than the cuts recently approved by the Senate in a stand-alone bill.

Meanwhile, lawmakers passed a compromise bill to end the $ 300-a-week federal unemployment insurance allowance, saying the increase in benefits discouraged people from getting back to work as the pandemic subsided.

The House of Representatives will vote on the annual Farm Act after the committee dropped a provision that would have made it difficult for workers to sue their employer for retaliation in the workplace. But a provision that environmentalists dislike of allowing methane farms on pig farms stays in the bill.

After all, a medical marijuana bill was heard for the first time in law. In often emotional testimonies, veterans and friends of cancer patients asked lawmakers to prescribe and use marijuana in the state to treat conditions ranging from cancer to multiple sclerosis to post-traumatic stress disorder.