[spiltmilk]

Unemployment Insurance (UI) taxes are paid by employers, not employees, so you haven’t “contributed” to it at all,

And the employer pays these monies......how? Take your time. Give up? Ok, I'll help. Every hourly wage, salary, bouns and benefit dollar I've earned since age 13 and continuing for the 23 years plus I've consistently held a job has been discounted by the cost the employer pays. Just as the same is discounted by the employer's half of social security. So yes, I have paid. So have you, so has everyone else.

[spiltmilk]

I'm sorry, that came off as overly testy and confrontational. I haven't yet had my coffee this morning. It is pretty true as far as I can tell though that just about every cost imposed on business on the payroll tax/labor laws side is eventually passed on to the employee (and consumer as well). Some of these are completely ridiculous and very much cause unemployment/offshoring etc. I don't dispute that at all.

But hey, I didn't vote for the democrats and contribute to this decades long destruction of our economy. I don't think people can lament against Obamunism and the reckless expansion of socialistic policies on the one hand and then point to me as part of the problem on the other. Let's deport Obama's free loading aunt and stop repaving highways over and over before we start throwing willing, tax paying, law abiding Americans out on the street. Am I crazy to suggest that?