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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 1885317" data-attributes="member: 1132">I believe unemployment is paid from witholdings the employer must set aside in a fund with the state. It's not by each individual, but by number of people employed by an employer. If you leave and they don't have to pay unemployment to you, it goes towards the next person they hire. Unless the employer does a reduction in force, the total number of unemployment claims as a percentage is fairly low in many cases. You could say that the employer would pay you a higher salary if they didn't have to pay unemployment, but you'd most likely never see an increase.By definition, the word entitlement has broad meaning. In a political sense, it means a .gov program designed to provide benefits to a specific segment of people. Those people that meet the criteria are entitled to said benefits. Many of those who receive these benefits feel a sense of entitlement. By that definition, I do not believe a program such as Social Security should be lumped in as an entitlement. It should be an earned income benefit. Are you entitled to it in the strictest sense of the word? Sure. However, you have to pay into the system to get something back. You earned it in other words.</blockquote>