Unemployment is taxable, your wrong again, lol. Why do CEOs get rewarded for failure and employees and/or tax payers bail them out?
Actually US if self-insured, I never recieved a check from the state, it was from Kemper insurance, gee your wrong again, how can that be?
I wasnt off for two years, I was off and on for two years and almost died from an infection after one of the knee surgeries.
So should it be like the old days, when I got hurt from work, they cast me off to die?
No wonder why this world is screwed up because of how people like you think.
Go look up Haymarket, or the GM or Ford incidents, or who the Pinkertons were and Maetwan.
Maybe you will actually learn something.
You're funny with all of your trivial distinctions which don't change a thing and I certainly am not wrong, as usual.
I've never been on unemployment so I wouldn't have any personal experience in that area. However, I do know that it is a very well reported fact that the bottom 47% of families that file tax returns, in terms of taxable income, pay almost no federal income taxes and most pay nothing at all. You may have money subtracted from a paycheck or insurance check, but if you are in the group that earn less than about $33k/year then your group contributed less than 3% of the total taxes paid in America. Further, if you are on unemployment, are you really paying taxes? Couldn't the state or federal government just pay you less and then not "tax" you on unemployment wages? But please again try to explain how sitting at home and drawing benefits from an insurance agency or a government entity
contributes to worker productivity.
Who Pays Taxes
US being self-insured changes nothing. They are required to pay for workers compensation claims which is no different than a business paying the state and having the state act as the insurance company. US cannot just decide not to pay WC premiums because it is detrimental to productivity can it? You are really reaching to find a way out on this aren't you? Of course I don't know your specific situation, but I do know where the money comes from to pay the benefits you received - American businesses via workers compensation laws.
I never said someone should be cast off to die. I simply stated that there is no way that the unions or the laws they lobbied to have instituted have
increased productivity. You want to distract from the fact that programs like workers compensation are a drain to business productivity. Its a pure and simple fact and only those willingly blind to the facts refuse to accept that.
The world is screwed, as you say, because we have long ago disregarded the notion of personal responsibility. People don't like the wages they are paid so they want someone else to fix it for them instead of bettering themselves to earn more or starting their own business. People think other people owe them a paid retirement program and a health care program and on and on because they don't want the responsibility of putting money away to care for themselves or they are too proud to ask their family, friends or church for assistance when they fall on hard times. The mathematics of this approach are bankrupting virtually every developed nation on the planet, most of which are in debt beyond their means to pay it back and they are too scared to tell people the truth lest they get accused of wanting people to die in the streets or want seven-year-olds working in sweat factories.
You are spinning your "facts" because you don't want to hear the truth. You talk like going back to the days before we had income taxes, Social Security Taxes, Medicare Taxes, Workers Comp laws and a national debt equal to our GDP is a bad thing. these programs are all a house of cards waiting to fall down as soon as China or whoever loses confidence in our ability to pay off our massive debt. I would much prefer to go back to a time when personal responsibility meant something and our national debt was limited to savings bonds or war bonds that served a legitimate purpose rather than a futile attempt to transfer wealth, which has never worked and has only served to weaken our nation and the American businesses which are the lifeblood of the economy we all have to live off of.
