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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said that his state will refuse the federal $300 unemployment benefits boost, saying that it is placing the United States "on the road to socialism." Last week, the Department of Labor reported that only 266,000 jobs were created in April, falling far short of economists' and analysts' expectations, while Republican elected officials have said it is, in part, due to the extra $300 weekly benefits that were included in pandemic relief bills that were signed into law last year. “We’ve got help-wanted signs up everywhere, we get calls and letters and texts from people, from all sorts of businesses all across the state looking for people to work,” McMaster, a Republican, told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Monday before deriding the federal benefits as "as close to socialism that I've seen." “People won’t come to work because they’re getting as much money or more in ...