It’s not unemployment insurance, it’s the whole construct that programs LIKE that are okay. You either agree with the principal of them all or you don’t. If you agree with that $55 cost per employee, you agree with the social security tax, the this tax, the this tax, because people NEED THE GOV to support them and that takes productivity out of the system. Your example is just a small item but it leads to the huge philosophical problem in America and why we are in debt and why our economy isn’t functioning.[/quote]
There you are with the manichean thinking again. We have a recent past president that was obsessed with it. I don’t have to agree with all of them, I can agree with some of them. And you havent even explained what “them” are. (to quote RW Emerson…A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.) We have pretty solid evidence that all taxes do not take productivity out of the system. (See US, 1945 to 2011) The whole slippery slope logic is lazy. Birth leads to milk. Milk leads to coke. Coke leads to alcohol. Alcohol leads to marijuana. And pretty soon we’re all heroin addicts. And then we’re all dead! Oops!
