So stop taking such a big chunk of the HONEST worker’s earnings!
Party A engages in business transaction with party B for cash. If the work performed is as agreed upon and satisfactory where is the dishonesty?
Your HONEST worker is not entitled a job. He can sit idle and starve until he realizes that the taxman, unions and burdensome regulations and fees are the true cause of his unemployment and the ones that take a big chunk of "his money".
Go back and read the article paying particular attention to that part that work is not contracted for by people who can't afford the bloated HONEST cost. Work that is needed and necessary doesn't get done. The elderly who might have performed the work themselves when young and fit find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. Use the cash unrecorded option or watch their equity decline sharply because the necessary repairs or maintenance are out of reach. And of course the devaluation of their property affects the immediate neighbors. End result eventually is another Detroit.
Free market rules always, even in the most totalitarian states.
Your comment is rather like a slave being indignant that a free man walks about and desires that man to become enslaved as well instead of yearning for freedom for himself.