The proposed Labor Department regulation doesn’t grant permission, it imposes a requirement. It would force employee status on many workers who actively wish to remain independent contractors.
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Posts relating to the federal government
Don’t Blame Migrants and ‘Open Borders’ for Fentanyl Entering the Country
Of all drug seizures during that period, 91 percent involved just U.S. citizens, while 4 percent involved “potentially removable people.” In reality, Border Patrol apprehends an exceedingly small number of people carrying fentanyl.
Don’t Blame Migrants and ‘Open Borders’ for Fentanyl Entering the Country
Sixth Circuit Rules Government Cannot Seize $300,000 in Home Equity to Pay $22,000 Tax Debt
Given the high value the Founders placed on property rights, it would be strange—to say the least—if these constitutional rights were left entirely at the mercy of state governments to redefine as they please
The Jury Was Right Not to Give the Parkland Killer the Death Penalty
We have a broken criminal justice department with long wait times, harried, overworked public defenders, and an imperfect police force (to put it as diplomatically as possible). A state sanctioned death penalty simply can’t be trusted.
https://www.newsweek.com/jury-was-right-not-give-parkland-killer-death-penalty-opinion-1752055
Biden’s war on work continues. Freelancers should be concerned
No one accidentally becomes a freelancer. Rather workers seek out these jobs specifically to avoid 9-5 desk jobs.
The FDA’s Perverse Plan To Ban Menthol Cigarettes and Cap Nicotine Levels
The FDA apparently has learned nothing from the country’s unhappy experience with the war on drugs.
https://reason.com/2022/10/06/the-fdas-perverse-plans-for-nicotine/
21 Years After 9/11, TSA Still Insists on Grabbing Your Dick When You Fly
The agency misses as much as 70 percent of the fake bombs, guns, and explosives that undercover government auditors try to sneak through their security checkpoints. Surveyed passengers report a near-90 percent success rate at getting illicit substances and items through security.
It’s (Almost) Always the Feds: How the FBI Fabricates Schemes To Entrap Would-Be Radicals
The war on terror allowed the FBI to build a massive spy network and shrug off post-Watergate restrictions limiting its ability to snoop on Americans. The fear of another 9/11 overcame our memories of Hoover’s FBI wiretapping, burgling, and blackmailing of the government’s political enemies, and so the bureau could once again investigate people for who they knew and what they said.
“Beast Mode” IRS Already Armed and Dangerous
The IRS is a “rogue agency without accountability,” targeting taxpayers who have broken no laws and doing it for political purposes. Those responsible for the crackdown suffered no consequences, all part of the IRS “recent scandals and abuses of its power.”