[palmer]

Would you go to the neighbor that lives next door to you and tell them you have lost your job and would they be willing to help support you for the next 180 days?

I would and they would help the best they could. I consider them good neighbors and try to be one myself.

This is classic liberalism; punish success for the benefit of failures. Your thinking is an embarrassment to freedom

That's a canard. Unemployment insurance does not simply reward failure although it can do that. Likewise paying the tax will "punish" success to a minor extent, although the social benefit of reducing the spread of recession through ripple effect reduces that "punishment" somewhat. Ok, my answer is a canard too.

[Reagan Renaissance]

Mandatory participation is the problem. It is incompatible with freedom. Compulsory is what makes it wrong. Nothing justifies the penalty for forfeiting freedom.

Try this for a canard: Those who forfeit freedom in exchange for security end up with neither. And the United States is well on the way.