A Ban on Freelance Work
"They're embarrassed that they made this huge mistake." Says Herstand.
"They aren't taking it back," I point out.
"No politican ever wants to admit that they did something wrong," he replies.
The results of California's mistakes are now in.
Even with all the exemptions for the politically connected, freelancers still lost jobs.
A Mercatus Center study found that employment fell by as much as 28% in profressions where self-employment was common.
And that's not because most freelancers got staff jobs with benefits. Labor force participation fell, too.
Yet now the U.S. Department of Labor is forcing the rest of America to restrict freelance work, too? Insane! It's a reason we have 50 states. Not all of us want to be more like California!
Even worse, President Joe Biden wants to go further by getting Congress to pass a union backed bill called the PRO Act. It would reclassify workers the same way California did, but without any exemptions! Don't politicians ever learn? No.
Biden says he is eager to be "the most pro-union president in American history."
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Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of "Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media."
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