Up here we all pay into unemployment insurance.... not the company. There is
an excess of money in the EI coffers to date going into the billions of
dollars. They can't use it anywhere else due to legislation. Maximum payable
benefits are capped at $655 every 2 weeks...that averages to 8.5 K every 6
months The average is around $350 every 2 weeks.

They bitch about the Maritimes being the biggest users of insurance benefits
but won't do anything to stimulate investment or jobs. They sold off the
rights to the fishing grounds to foreign interests who have been gleefully
raping the area of all fish for the last 5 decades in return for agreements
from them to buy our wheat. We pay an average of 48% in taxes and
unemployment insurance is just enough to keep one in the poor house for 13
weeks a year after which you require 665 bankable hours of work to reapply.
The government goes out of it's way to penalize and small private
entrepreneurs and generously gives massive tax breaks to large corporations
from overseas that operate with a minimal staff based on profit over
employment opportunity basis.These same companies compete effectively to
buy-out or destroy smaller outfits and family owned businesses that have
employed many people for generations.

Last time I checked it was supposed to be a government by the people for the
people... not a government to screw the people for the benefit of those
elected. Screw them... we have a healthy Black Market here in Nova Scotia
and I'll continue to support anything that keeps my tax dollars from lining
some lying pigs wallet after serving a 3 year term and retiring on a cush
$120,000/yr pension at 55.

CM



"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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| You're wrong. I never paid dime one in unemployment
| insurance payments. The companies I worked for were
| required by law to pay them. I know what you are gonna
| say. You're gonna claim I would have earned a bigger
| paycheck if the company did not have to pay unemployment
| insurance premiums. I maintain that is NOT the case. The
| companies would simply have pocketed the extra profit.
|
| Besides, only fools view unemployment insurance as
| something everyone who pays should collect. I've got
| news for you, buddy, insurance only works when everybody
| in a group pays and a few in a group collect. If everyone
| collects his 'fair share' said fair share would not be enough
| to pay the benefits people who really need it expect and
| deserve. It was never meant to keep some lazy ******* in
| beer and cigarettes. Instead of receiving 2/3rds of one's
| normal paycheck one would receive more like 1/50th of it.
| How some people ever got the idea that insurance
| is some kind of magic bullet is hard to fathom. I guess
| one can expect little more from a Canadian, at any rate.
|
| S.Simon - actually knows how the system works.
|
|
| "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
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| "Simple Simon" wrote in message
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| | S.Simon - never cashed an unemployment check in my life;
| | never have and never will. I earn MY keep!
|
| Discussed this with a Scottish buddy of mine... he boasted he'd never
been
| on unemployment insurance and had never taken a check for it. I pointed
out
| to him that considering the taxes he paid and the fact the unemployment
| deduction was taken from his paychecks all thos years... it would be
| tantamount to refusing to take an insurance payment on your car that
someone
| else ran into and wrecked because you were to proud .... just Plain
Stupid!
|
| Try not paying a portion of the income Tax and see if your government is
too
| "Proud" to take you to court and seize your money/assets.
|
| Your line of thinking is illogical.
|
| CM
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