[caterco1]

Your wrong..SS is paid by employee but matched by employer...Eployers definately pay...

[hobbes1]

Yes, they pay the Government........Money they would normally pay You.... Get it?

[freedomcrusader]

Yes, but it's only to hide the true burden of the tax from the average dumb idiot (all too common in this society). It still figures in the total cost of every employee, and the more 'costs' that the employer must pay to the gov't, the less 'costs' it pays to the employee.

[Leisler]

Not if you can the employee and get a machine or contract out to asia.

[rollin]

When a competent business person hires an employee, the cost of hiring that employee is considered and that includes actual wage cost, employee tax, employer share of the FICA tax, SUTA tax, and benefit costs such as group health insurance, pension benefits, free parking, etc.

To do otherwise would be irresponsible and fooling yourself. That is a quick way to failure!