[quote=markmax33]If my company pays it on my behalf it still comes out of my salary no matter what hocus pocus you believe. The money the employer and the GOV pays into these programs is such a waste. 50% is probably blown in DC paying the heads of the programs out $140k salaries before it ever gets out to the people. I don’t like 50% returns on the dollar. Some of us have a network of friends to rely on in tough times and a good nest egg, some of us most not have friends.[/quote]
Well this should make you happy markmax. While there is a supplemental federal unemployment program (which costs employers a max of $56 per year per employee), unemployment is primarily a state program. You know, right where you like the programs. Administrative costs aren’t zero, but they’re pretty low.
And unemployment no more comes out of your salary than your employer’s rent does. Or software licenses for your company computer. Your employer pays those things in order to have employees. A salary burden just like unemployment taxes. And neither is it paid in on your behalf.
Maybe if you took the time to find out how programs work before you start with your knee jerk reactions which support your ideologies, you wouldn’t be so repeatedly wrong when you make such foolish assumptions.
