Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • My Rifles
  • Concentrate on Dividend Record and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Your Health
  • Old Confederacy
  • Main Street Conservative
  • BLM’s Marxist Agenda
  • Ron Paul
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Freedom Force
  • Dick Young’s Safe America

Do You Know About California’s New AB5 Law?

February 18, 2020 By Richard C. Young

Governor Gavin Newsom (CA-D) visits the President of El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén. April 8, 2019. Photo courtesy of the office of the president of El Salvador.

California’s bid to rein in gig-workers has created turmoil in the state’s economy. Erica Sandberg notes at City Journal that “Musicians can’t join bands for a one-night gig, chefs can’t join forces with caterers, nurses can’t work at various hospitals, and writers must cap their submissions per media outlet to 35 per year.” This sort of normal economic activity falls afoul of the state’s new AB5 law, which puts draconian limits on gig work. Worst of all, House Democrats in Washington D.C. are now attempting to extend the regulation to the entire nation. Sandberg writes (abridged):

Are California Democrats—responsible for the state’s new anti-gig-worker law, AB5—so out of touch that they’re not aware of the growing anger of their constituents? It appears so.

Since AB5 took effect on January 1, hundreds of thousands of Californians are finding their businesses in tatters. Musicians can’t join bands for a one-night gig, chefs can’t join forces with caterers, nurses can’t work at various hospitals, and writers must cap their submissions per media outlet to 35 per year.

An overwhelming majority of professionals in fields affected by AB5 identify as liberals and have generally voted along the blue line. Today, however, many are so disillusioned with their representatives that they’re changing political loyalties.

Apparently oblivious to the reaction in California, congressional Democrats have passed HR 2474, a national version of AB5, known as the “Protecting the Right to Organize” or “PRO Act.”

The PRO Act, designed to boost union membership, will put 57 million independent contractors across the country out of work if it becomes law. These enterprising professionals will be forced into low-paying jobs—if they can find them—with none of the autonomy, flexibility, or opportunity that they currently enjoy.

When the Trump administration denounced the bill, people who normally hiss at mention of the president’s name found themselves in a peculiar position: feeling grateful.

Independent contractors are a unique bunch. Deeply committed to individual liberty, they’re becoming a unified group of fighters in California. They come from all walks of life and political persuasions, and if voting differently means that they can continue to run their businesses as they see fit, then so be it.

Unless Democrats change course, the AB5 revolt may be the Brexit that the U.S. never saw coming.

Erica Sandberg is a widely published consumer-finance reporter based in San Francisco and the author of Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families. As a community advocate, she focuses on homelessness and crime and safety issues.

Related Posts

  • A Teachable Moment in the Law of Unintended Consequences
  • VIDEO: Toobin Says Obama Broke the Law
  • Another Fatally Ignorant Concealed Carry Law
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • Progressives Steal White House/Demolish Their Foundation - January 20, 2021
  • The Route 209 Pennsylvania Presidential Election Mystery. - January 20, 2021
  • Trump Clobbers Biden In Pennsylvania, Day #2 - January 20, 2021

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • 751 “No-Go” Zones in France
  • TAC’s Robert W. Merry Unveils Presidential War Lies
  • VIDEO: Carlson “Biden’s Fading Intellect an Opportunity for Democrats Who Want to Control Him”
  • Insurrection Was the Furthest Thing from Trump’s Mind
  • Government Should Be Small, Laws Unobtrusive, and Men Left Alone
  • Gold’s 50-Year Price Explosion
  • Why Black Lives Matter Needs to Be Shut Down
  • Gold/Silver Coins No Longer Allowed in Safe Deposit Boxes
  • Yes! Money Can Bring You Happiness
  • Conflict Between Democratic Sovereignty and Transnational Progressivism (Globalism)

Our Most Popular Posts

  • The Recklessness of Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • The Stock Market Is About Money Flows Not Politics.
  • Who Are Those Urging Violence?
  • Dick Young’s Safe America: Chapter 1, Part I
  • Smith Family Robinson in Live Free or Die, NH
  • Cancel Culture, the Great Purge, Double Standards
  • Insurrection Was the Furthest Thing from Trump’s Mind
  • How Are You Doing on a Local Level?
  • Warmongering Firestarters Victoria Nuland and Samantha Powers Back
  • Zinc: The Gatekeeper of Immune Surveillance.

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • I’ve Been in Richard Young’s Maximizers for Years
  • Smith Family Robinson in Live Free or Die, NH
  • Dick Young’s Safe America: Chapter 1, Part I
  • Whether Through Audacity or Ignorance, Stock Fundamentals Are Being Ignored
  • Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
  • The Fed is Sacrificing Retirees to Save the Banks
  • Jim Simons’s Renaissance Technologies vs. Internet Forum Traders
  • February RAGE Gauge: Americans Focusing on What’s In Front of Them
  • Biden Plans to Spend Trillions More on COVID-19 Stimulus
  • There’s Always a Way Forward for Americans Like YOU

This Guy Is America’s New President: Shotgun Joe

Progressives Steal White House/Demolish Their Foundation

The Route 209 Pennsylvania Presidential Election Mystery.

A President Speaks: “Hard Work Never Killed Anybody”

Trump Clobbers Biden In Pennsylvania, Day #2

VIDEO: Joe Biden, “Buy a Shotgun,” the Remix

Copyright © 2021 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives