“Granted the person who rents a room in their home or provides a ride on occassion isn’t subject to the taxes, regulations, licensure and authorization fees that an actual motel owner or cab operator has to put up with. But rideshare providers pay taxes on the fuel, tires and insurance that they consume when they’re driving, and room hosts pay taxes on the energy and food consumed by each of their in-home visitors. “
This is like trying to say renters pay property taxes/school taxes through their rent payments and utility costs.
I am sure that there are homeowners who who have part of their property taxes included in rent they are charging, although we never did when we were still paying our mortgage and my husband was in the service. We bought our house in late March of 1967 and moved in on April 1, 1967. Our real estate company rented our house out from August 1967 until late May of 1979 when my husband retired from the Army.
Well they do. How do you think the owner pays taxes on his rental property? Through the rents, of course. When his taxes go up, so does the rent.
That's why the minimum wage argument is flawed. Make the minimum wage $100/hr and the cost of a meal at McDonalds will rise to about $80. The low-skilled workers will always struggle to make ends meet.