24 Replies to “Women And Socialists Hardest Hit”

  3. Government should not have this much power. On the other hand, we are only talking about writers who deal in vacuous, inane, disposable prose written for silly females and intellectually bereft morons. So, not much will be lost.

    1. I have no idea what they’re writing, but that is not the issue. If there weren’t a market for what they produce, they wouldn’t be doing so. Only socialists can wrap job creation within legislated job loss and call it progress.

  4. Kate: Living Wage Writing?

    As a former regulatee I used to say of regulators, They Never Sleep. 24/7/365 working on new forms of mischief making with zero understanding or experince of what and whom they are harrassing.

    2. And here’s what they voted-for: Corporations = EVIL. All those awful corporations who work fabulously well with FREELANCE employees will now be FORCED by an intrusive government to treat ALL their “consultants” and “independent contractors” as FULL TIME employees. Ohhhhhh mammmaaaaa … isn’t that WONderFUL! They “showed” those greedy corporations!!!

      Here’s what the leftist socialists running our government don’t understand … basic economics. Basic economics can best be described as “survival”. No matter what these communists running CA believe … these “evil” corporations will survive. That means, they will find an economical solution to the Govt. overreach. They’ll hire more illegal aliens who don’t report taxes anyway. Who knows? But the “evil” corporations will find a work-around. If they don’t, then they will dissolve. And when that happens … no more taxes for the State.

      But in the drug addled minds of these leftist numbskulls, they believe they can beat-up the corporations … and make-them-pay!!! They also believe that EVERYONE wants to live in CA sooooo badly, that they can never kill off business. They’re wrong. Their whack-a-doodle, oppressive regulations WILL absolutely drive business OUT. Idgiots!!

      1. I am looking forward to complete destruction of society as a whole. Then we can start over.

  6. Wait until the newspapers realize they’ll also have to pay a living wage and benefits to the “independent business people” who distribute their newspapers and the carriers who bring them to doorsteps. Newspaper giants like Torstar had the legislation created years ago that allowed them to say a 12-year-old news carrier was an independent contractor so they didn’t have to pay them minimum wage or provide benefits. Meanwhile on the editorial pages they talk about the greedy big businesses that are screwing the working man. They should know, they’re experts.

  8. “Everyone’s freaking out, like my anxiety is going through the damn roof.”

    If only there was a profession that would research proposed government policy, inform the public about it and its effects, and to solicit public input.

    Remember, folks, said writers are your intellectual superiors. And they voted for this. But now they’re upset.

    1. Yes. A tax that in the past, few “freelancers” bothered to pay.

      Taxes, after all, are the responsibility of the poor bastards reduced to driving Ubers around California’s cities because nobody will hire a white man with a basic education at a living wage. Not of pampered trophy wives “freelancing” for pocket money. The very idea of women paying taxes is the height of patriarchal thinking.

      The objective of this law was to crack down on tax evasion by Uber drivers who, understandably, preferred to eat regularly rather than pay for welfare state benefits for the scum of central America. Surely not the sisterhood.

  10. Ha Ha. I bet they supported it when it was proposed because they were too stupid to figure out how it would affect them.

    1. History Repeats dept.
      ‘THEY SOWED THE WIND, AND NOW THEY ARE GOING TO REAP THE WHIRLWIND’
      – Sir Arthur Harris –

      2. there was mixed success with the bombing campaigns.
        I do NOT however fault the man for trying something different.
        there were a LOT of factory workers rendered homeless or dead from the bombing raids.

        then the ultimate ‘whirlwind’ is visited upon 2 cities in Japan and a war THEY started 14 years previously ENDED as soon as they could find a pen to sign the surrender.

  12. So, no writing past a certain number of submissions? Is that not government censorship, hence illegal under the first amendment? It looks pretty clear to me.

    I smell lawsuit.

    2. Lawsuit, yes but unsuccessful on that basis. No one stopping them from writing, just selling. Can’t imagine how this can be enforced however…..maybe a new bureaucracy?

      Don’t understand how this will affect out of state writers or those with multiple bylines.

      California craziness…..

      15% is social security tax. 7% cost to employee, 8% to employer = 15% to self employed.

  13. soooooo basically here we have yet another example of pollllitiSHUNS ‘solving’ one problem
    by creating thousands more.
    how many times you seen that happen dear SDA?
    my town tried to nail property owners for the costs of fire calls to the gro-op, meth lab etc.
    then they tried to nail landlords for delinquent hydro and gas bills, right in the middle of the ‘privacy act’ which forbids landlords from checking up on the balances of the tenant’s utility accounts.
    I pointed out as a landlord, the probable consequences including:
    – ‘word on the street’ leading to MILLIONS of dollars in delinquent bills,
    -HUGE security deposits ‘just in case’
    -countless property owners getting out of the rental business
    -etc

    they backed down.
    ‘solve one problem by creating thousands more’, it comes as kenji points out from a complete failure and lack of the simplest understanding of economics and I might add, human behaviour.

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