Probably yes.
Unfortunately high taxes and “hidden” taxes do too.
I’ve been unemployed and underemployed for 13 going on 14 months...
Since February 2009, I’ve kept the radar up and running to find work, but no one is hiring in my field enough to make an impact...
I eventually took a job at a storage facility making less than I would if I stayed on unemployment, which by the way was going to run out entirely by July of this year I was told by the Texas Workforce Commission...
But since that short two weeks of working at that job I got sick (as some may know) and have not been able to be cleared to go back to that job by my doctors...So as of late last week I was told to sign a letter of resignation, and that when I do get cleared in the next couple of months by my doctors, they might hire me back, if they have a position open...
I cannot go back on unemployment, as you have to be able to work to receive those funds...
Social Security only covers long term disabilities, to the death, and I have not received a call back from the Texas HHS folks...
So where does that leave us???
Some might say screwed, but I say relieved...Something will come up eventually, but I am not pinning my hopes on anytime soon...
We’ll just have to manage...
Some family members have told me that I shouldn’t feel guilty about being on the unemployment rolls, because I paid into that...But when you have to pay taxes on even that money, to me, it just doesn’t feel like it’s due to me for some reason...So that is why I am relieved to be off the rolls...
And for anyone in the government to be relieved that I am in this condition, so that the unemployment numbers start looking better for them...Screw them!!! Everytime I see those numbers on any news outlet it is an absolute lie, obviously...
I have no incentive to go back to school, I have no reason to startup my own business, or change anything about the way I do things in my life, why should I, I did absolutely nothing to earn this condition other than be a business decision, based upon the environment created by our government which has screwed the pooch on everything it touches...
I’m glad to be off the government teet now...Especially now with what is running the show now...
/Monday Morning Rant
Does a bear.......
Yes. Case in point: My ex has turned down multiple job offers because she gets more from unemployment after taxes.
Pop quiz, who said this?
“A large proportion of these unemployed and their dependents have been forced on the relief rolls. The burden on the Federal Government has grown with great rapidity. We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers.
The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.”
The only people I know who received unemployment chose not to look for work until their benefits ran out.
Yes, because it doesn't give people an incentive to find work, since unemployment benefits are renewed every few months.