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Millionaires Collecting Unemployment?
The Atlantic ^ | October 4, 2010 | Daniel Indiviglio

Posted on 10/04/2010 4:09:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 3niner
Everything paid by an employer, on behalf of an employee, reduces the amount that the employer pays directly to the employee.

Not in the case of unemployment insurance.

21 posted on 10/04/2010 5:25:53 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Poison Pill

Congratulations! You just flunked Econ 101.


22 posted on 10/04/2010 5:29:32 PM PDT by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: Figment

That those who paid the most into a system should be denied any benefits will ensure that they will go Galt.


23 posted on 10/04/2010 5:50:17 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" - on amazon.com)
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To: sten

Oh, I agree with you 100%. I just wanted to let everyone know how Unemployment Insurance works.


24 posted on 10/04/2010 5:51:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Palin/Bolton 2012)
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To: tbw2

Galt’s Gulch?
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25 posted on 10/04/2010 5:53:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Palin/Bolton 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess before they write an article, they first ought to get a hand on what a millionaire is. It’s not someone who makes a million a year... rather, it’s someone who as accumulated $1 million or more in net worth (assets less liabilities). Geez.


26 posted on 10/04/2010 6:18:58 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess before they write an article, they first ought to get a hand on what a millionaire is. It’s not someone who makes a million a year... rather, it’s someone who has accumulated $1 million or more in net worth (assets less liabilities). Geez.


27 posted on 10/04/2010 6:19:18 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: 3niner
You just flunked Econ 101.

Took it years ago and passed out with an A.

Unemployment insurance is a government operated scam. The flaw in your thinking is that you believe an unemployment insurance premium "paid" to an employee to be a beneficial payment that accrues just to him. "Everything paid by an employer, on behalf of an employee". The employer is not getting a dollar worth of value for every dollar paid to an employee through the system. And there is no efficient market that tells the employer what the true value of the "insurance" payment should be for each employee. The employer can't shop the "insurance" on the open market. No real insurance company would write a policy that covers all workers in a company at the same rate.

28 posted on 10/04/2010 9:01:31 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Poison Pill

You clearly don’t understand the point I was making.


29 posted on 10/05/2010 8:41:10 AM PDT by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

True, the employer pays everything.


30 posted on 10/05/2010 3:04:12 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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