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.
Category: Regulation
Posts about government regulation
Cities Sidestep Property Rights With This One Trick
Entrepreneurs who launch and grow legitimate businesses suddenly find themselves out of bounds. They follow the rules, but the rules change… One day a business is legal, and the next day it is not.
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/
D.C. Zoning Officials Prepare a ‘Racial Equity Tool’ To Guide Zoning Decisions
The vague and open-ended nature of those questions has some housing activists concerned that the tool will prove overly burdensome, and even unworkable, for property owners trying to do something simple like changing their lot’s zoning from residential to commercial use.
The Scourge of Rent Control
Defenders of the poor and virtuous promoters of income redistribution are often only proponents of “solutions” that increase government power.
Criminal Code
“…individuals have a right to financial privacy. There is no legitimate reason to require payments be processed through some intermediary that requires an account and identifying information.”
Blind Faith Baloney
“…economic freedom is key to promoting all the major aspects of life we want like growth, better education, a lift out of poverty, a decline in crime, and more.
Court Strikes Down “Quarantine Camp” Regulation in New York State
It was clear to me that this “regulation” violated the separation of powers that is so clearly laid out in our Constitution. It violated existing New York State laws that have been on the books for decades. It violated due process protections.
Denver Police Hurt 6 Bystanders in a Shooting. So the City Cracked Down on Food Trucks.
“Food trucks make neighborhoods safer, so the last thing you should ever want to do from a public-safety standpoint is ban food trucks.”