California doubles down on crushing jobs

Tech writers can always find other occupations

Another $20 million added to enforcement of anti-gig law, AB5

AB5 and the spending increase are both opposed by the Black Small Business Association of California (BSBA), which “argues that the state’s costly plan to enforce AB5 would only exacerbate income inequality” in a letter sent last week to California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.

Another report says that “AB5 Leaves Women Business Owners Reeling.”

Passed last fall, AB5 “radically alters the definition of an ’employee so that independent Uber and Lyft drivers, as well as others who work in the gig economy, are brought to heel by limiting the amount of independent contract work a company can claim,” PJ Media’s Rick Moran wrote back in October.

As a result, musicians, writers, and other freelance creative workers have, by the thousands, found that their preferred ways of working have been effectively outlawed. Numerous festivalsacross the state have already been canceled.

Labor Union whore and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales, proud parent of AB5 has dismissed the howls of the newly unemployed by claiming, “those were never good jobs anyway”. Leave it to a Democrat to determine that a freelance writing or consulting job netting $50,000 a year, part-time, isn’t up to her standards. Better you should have no job than not pay union dues.

I keep ranting on this topic not so much because I care about Californians — they put these thieves into office, they can live with the consequences — but because the anti-gig ban is going national. Joe Biden supports it, Granny Box wine Pelosi does too, and New York, New Jersey and other Democrat paradises are going forward with their own versions, all equally bad.