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U.S. Cracks Down on ‘Contractors’ as a Tax Dodge
- mbrubeck 17y agoThis was the front-page story on yesterday's New York Times.
- araneae 17y agoInteresting... The guy crashed his plane at 10am that day. Might this article have been the final straw?
- ShabbyDoo 17y agoI think I'm one of the supposedly harmed contractors referred to in the article, and I'm pissed off. The government, in it's mis-directed efforts to help people, has forced W2 employees to opt into a bunch of insurance pools which they might not deem personally necessary. If you had the option of paying out-of-pocket for unemployment insurance, would you? How about the implicit insurance against discriminatory termination? Do you need the right to sue your employer for sexual harassment? Do you want to limit your 401K choices to those crappy mutual funds with 3% management fees? Do you want your employer to have a significant financial disincentive to offer you the opportunity to work more than 40 hours per week (paid hourly)? These are the things you opt into with full time employment. The article didn't bother to mention the pay differential between contract and W2 labor. How much more were those cable installers paid per hour than the prevailing W2 wage for the same work?