Reverse benefits: North Koreans pay unemployment tax to government when they are out of work

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Reverse benefits: North Koreans pay unemployment tax to government when they are out of work

Posted: 12/28/2012 5:07:09 PM EDT

Imagine going to work every day and not getting paid. Then, one day, you're told there's no work to do — so you must pay the company for the privilege of not working.

This is the daily reality facing Mrs. Kim, a petite 52-year-old North Korean. Her husband's job in a state-run steel factory requires him to build roads. She can't remember the last time he received a monthly salary. When there are no roads to build, he has to pay his company around 20 times his paltry monthly salary, she says.

"He had to pay not to work for about six months of last year," Mrs. Kim told NPR, sighing. "You have to pay, even if you can't afford to eat. It's mandatory."

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/28/168193827/out-of-desperation-north-korean-women-become-breadwinners

Posted: 12/28/2012 5:11:21 PM EDT

[#1]

Someone should introduce such a bill here, just to get a rise out of the FSA.

Posted: 12/28/2012 5:13:22 PM EDT

[#2]

how progressive

Posted: 12/28/2012 5:15:37 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

Someone should introduce such a bill here, just to get a rise out of the FSA.

Posted: 12/28/2012 5:16:07 PM EDT

[#4]

The democrat vision for the future, brought to life. Glorious!

Posted: 12/28/2012 5:18:15 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Someone should introduce such a bill here, just to get a rise out of the FSA.

I could get behind this...

Posted: 12/28/2012 5:30:22 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Someone should introduce such a bill here, just to get a rise out of the FSA.

I could get behind this...

FSA would vote the politicians out of office. Need an armed populace to do that in North Korea.

Posted: 12/29/2012 3:42:24 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Someone should introduce such a bill here, just to get a rise out of the FSA.

I could get behind this...

FSA would vote the politicians out of office. Need an armed populace to do that in North Korea.

They wouldn't do anything. The majority of those people are completely brainwashed. National Geographic did an "Inside NK" documentary not too long ago. It is eye opening. I think its on Netflix still.

Posted: 12/29/2012 3:51:13 PM EDT

[#8]

If people aren't being paid wages when they are employed, where are they getting the funds from when they aren't?

I think there are probably some facts missing from that story.
The kind of facts that require math.

Posted: 12/29/2012 3:53:02 PM EDT

[#9]

If done here it would be like the FSA's Little Bighorn.

Posted: 12/29/2012 3:55:13 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

If people aren't being paid wages when they are employed, where are they getting the funds from when they aren't?

I think there are probably some facts missing from that story.

The kind of facts that require math.

Are you questioning Dear Leader's unemployment policies?

Posted: 12/29/2012 4:02:54 PM EDT

[#11]

Shhhh! Don't give Zero any ideas.

Posted: 12/29/2012 4:10:41 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Shhhh! Don't give Zero any ideas.

This DISCOURAGES unemployment. Zero wants people on unemployment and depending on payments from the Democrats and federal government.

Posted: 12/29/2012 4:15:28 PM EDT

[#13]

Si!

Posted: 12/29/2012 4:17:03 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
If people aren't being paid wages when they are employed, where are they getting the funds from when they aren't?

I think there are probably some facts missing from that story.
The kind of facts that require math.

Someone found that they could strong arm people with no consequences.

Posted: 12/29/2012 4:22:03 PM EDT

[#15]

"petite"

the word you are searching for is "starving"

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