Technically it comes from unemployment insurance premiums. Wikipedia says: In the United States, benefits are funded by a compulsory governmental insurance system, not taxes on individual citizens.
It's easy to imagine some sort of alternate reality where the unemployment insurance system is handled by a private company, for instance.
Moreover, calling it double-tax doesn't really make any sense because the tax is on the income, not the dollar itself. Public sector employees aren't getting double-taxed because part of their salary goes to the government, which pays for their paycheck. You're also not taxed infinity-taxed because your paycheck comes from a business which is taxed, which gets its revenue from a consumer which is taxed, which gets their paycheck from a business which is taxed...
If it isn't a tax, then may I opt out of it and/or get all the money back I put into it? My current strategy is government grants to fund project I want to do regardless, but I don't think that will ever really break even.
Technically it comes from unemployment insurance premiums. Wikipedia says: In the United States, benefits are funded by a compulsory governmental insurance system, not taxes on individual citizens.
It's easy to imagine some sort of alternate reality where the unemployment insurance system is handled by a private company, for instance.
Moreover, calling it double-tax doesn't really make any sense because the tax is on the income, not the dollar itself. Public sector employees aren't getting double-taxed because part of their salary goes to the government, which pays for their paycheck. You're also not taxed infinity-taxed because your paycheck comes from a business which is taxed, which gets its revenue from a consumer which is taxed, which gets their paycheck from a business which is taxed...