Posted on 10/03/2025 6:37:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
One of Zohran Mamdani’s most harmful proposals is getting the least attention: his plan to restrict “gig” work – the freelancing that’s so popular across the Big Apple. Mamdani wants to wrap freelancing in so much red tape, it’ll be significantly harder for New Yorkers to work for themselves or get side income.
New Jersey, too, is flirting with severely limiting independent work. But whether it comes from Gracie Mansion or Trenton, a crackdown on gig work would hurt not just workers and those who hire them, but every New Yorker or New Jerseyan who relies on freelance workers in their daily lives.
As America’s biggest city, it should be no surprise that New Yorkers have a diversity of work arrangements. Studies before the pandemic found that more than a million New Yorkers freelance. Now at least 20% of working New Yorkers find gigs through apps.
Gig workers do all kinds of jobs. Some drive or deliver, others shoot freelance photography for major brands, and others build websites or repair bicycles. Whatever form it takes, freelancing is popular because it gives workers flexible hours, the chance to be their own boss, and the opportunity to earn extra money.
Millions of Americans perform independent work in addition to full-time work and millions more need the flexibility of independent work to balance work and caregiving responsibilities. And studies find these entrepreneurs are pleased with their choice to freelance.
Despite this growth and freelancer satisfaction, critics like Mamdani want to make it harder for Americans to be independent contractors. While they frame their opposition as a matter of “protecting workers,” they really want to put government in the driver’s seat of employment, while making it harder for workers to freelance at all.
In particular, Mamdani wants to increase scrutiny of the contracts
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It is not IF Mamdani wins, only question is HOW BIG A WIN.
No offense intended, but I pray you are very, very wrong.
I wish Mamdani loses. But I am a realist. I know How they vote in NYC.
He’s a guaranteed winner. It’s time to switch tactics from trying to defeat communism to labeling every Democrat as communists going forward.
Republicans lose in these cases because they suck at messaging.
I have no empathy or sympathy for NYC-ers, since they’re voting this lowlife, subhuman POS into office. NONE.
I thought funemployment was collecting unemployment and then not looking for another job.
It seems to me that since Federal taxes, medicare and social security taxes are affected when these jobs are outlawed, the Federal government may have a right to intervene in how these gig jobs are being outlawed by cities and states. It’s not just a simple 10th amendment issue as federal tax collections are being affected when states and cities ban jobs they don’t like...
If they hear about his plans to kill their jobs, maybe not many. But this is the first I’ve heard of it. They will do their best to keep things under wraps.
Freelance workers are abundant here in North Idaho. Seems like everybody has had a side gig for decades.
They want to unionize it out of existence.
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