Increasing Employer Costs Only Hurts State

Re “Jobless Fund Crisis to Hit Employers,” Dec. 15: Yep, employers now face an enormous increase in unemployment benefit taxes to fund the ridiculous largess bestowed on benefit seekers by our out-of-control one-party Legislature. This deficit will escalate further as that same Legislature attempts in the future to heap the certain-to-come runaway costs of its family leave plan on employers when the employee-funded benefits are exhausted. These increased costs to employers are a direct cost of maintaining employees, and the inevitable response (in fact, the only logical response) will be to reduce or merely maintain the California workforce while expanding elsewhere. That’s the price we pay when the elected legislators in California’s Democratic Party overwhelmingly consist of economic illiterates.

Kip Dellinger

Los Angeles