If you take the SS deductions from my paycheck and the amount matched by my employer, there would be enough money to hire a minimum wage employee. Businesses could actually get some productive work out of that money instead of supporting a non-working person in idleness. A business is not a jobs program. It exists to make money. Employees are hired only when needed to make the business productive enough to meet the marketplace demand.
The minimum wage is a crock too. It sets the minimum price for unskilled labor. No worker worth a damn will stay at minimum wage for very long. Many with no experience will never even get hired because the price is too high for an unskilled individual. They won't have a chance to demonstrate their real worth to an employer.
You mentioned "these people were robbed of that money". I submit that the unemployment benefits are taken from the taxpayer. No person receiving those benefits has explicitly paid for unemployment benefits as such. Social security is explicitly deducted. The right thing to do would be to fund an real account (like a 401K) with the amount taken from an employee and cease taking further deductions. If you haven't paid, you aren't entitled to a refund of monies not already disbursed to you via SS benefits. End of theft by the government.
Yea.......what about the disabled? People who CAN'T work!
Yep, Davis has proposed this on a Statewide level I believe, in the midst of their huge budget shortfall. Which is fine with me, maybe his failure will teach some people a lesson.
Yes. And I think it leads to inflation. I just don't see how handing everyone $20.00 an hour would do anything but diminish what $20.00 an hour is worth in real terms.
Oh yes. There is no lockbox and many people have to be robbed to pay one employee today, who himself was also robbed yesterday in the same manner.