Why would Mark Binker not mention about $2.5 Billion North Carolina owes the Federal Government relative to a Employment Security Commission Subpoena?

"...it’s considered good form to show up
when the guys who write your budget ask you to stop in.

Apparently, Lynn Holmes
— the Commerce Department Assistant Secretary
in charge of the Employment Security Commission
— declined to speak to the Revenue Laws Committee today.

So the Revenue Laws Committee took the unusual step
of issuing a subpoena...

The committee wanted to talk to Holmes
about the state’s mounting debt to the federal government
that has been accumulated in order to pay unemployment benefits.

Holmes ...wrote legislative leaders

...that employers soon will have to begin paying a little extra

on their federal unemployment insurance tax

because lawmakers took "no substantive action" this year

on how to pay down $2.5 billion in debt it owes the federal government

for paying benefits.

The extended debt will result in employers receiving

effectively an additional 0.3 percentage point on their rates, she wrote.

The new rate of 0.9 percent will occur automatically.

"The General Assembly has the primary authority

to address how the state will repay the principal

of that debt," Holmes wrote.

...The debt issue is touchy for both political parties

because lawmakers and labor experts say any solution

ultimately will require the state's businesses

to pay even higher unemployment insurance taxes

to pay off the debt over the next decade.

Chron

North Carolina has tripped automatic triggers
that require the state to raise unemployment insurance taxes
on employers."

Mark

Study on NC's $2.5B unemployment debt moves ahead