Directions Each week, you have two discussion prompts. You're more than welcome to choose either one of them as the primary post and reply to the other thread as secondary posts. Students are required

Directions

Each week, you have two discussion prompts. You're more than welcome to choose either one of them as the primary post and reply to the other thread as secondary posts.

Students are required to post 3 posts spread over 3 different days with initial not later than Wednesday and two other by Sunday. The number of words of the initial post should be no less than 250 and the number of words in each of the secondary posts should be no less than 100.

Discussion Prompt(s)Prompt 1

What are some of the differences between social security and the Railroad Retirement Tax Act?

• Social Security Administration (Links to an external site.) [Website]
• Railroad Retirement Tax Act (Links to an external site.) [Website] 

Prompt 2

Why do employers need to pay unemployment taxes? How many unemployment taxes are employers required to pay and how are they calculated? Do employees need to pay them?