[Uncle Sham]

If you hire me as an employee, you budget YOUR expenses to have me work for you. Two of those expenses are YOUR contribution to my health care plan AND YOUR part of my social security cost. This is money YOU pay because I am your employee. If I don’t exist, those cost to you don’t exist.

I am an overall expense to you that I don’t get to see but my labor is worth to you that entire expense. This means that I am the reason you incurred the cost of having me as an employee. My labor is paying for what you budget for hiring me. That my paycheck shows me my supposed contribution to social security, it hides the fact that you contribute just as much as part of your cost of having me work for you. I pay ALL of it with my labor.

[Wuli]

“I pay ALL of it with my labor.”

No. The employers revenue pays all of it, without which you’d have no job.