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BLUE STATE BLUES: California’s AB5 Leaves Women Business Owners Reeling.

Aimee Benavides has built a thriving career as a translator and interpreter while homeschooling her nine-year-old daughter, who has autism, and 11-year-old son, who is heavily involved in STEM enrichment classes. What makes it all possible is the home-based business she started in 2010, after leaving a full-time job in the court system.

 

It isn’t easy to juggle it all. Sometimes she starts work at 5:30 am to get her work done—or brings her son to the school board meetings where she takes on evening projects. “The times I don’t take my son with me, they ask, ‘How is your son?’” she says.

 

Still, Benavides would not trade the flexibility of self-employment for a traditional job. Benavides’ business allows her and her husband, an IT professional, to afford the cost of living in Fresno, Calif., while still permitting them to manage their family responsibilities.

 

Benavides is one of a number of self-employed women in California who are speaking out in opposition to AB5, a union-backed law aimed at preventing misclassification of gig workers that took effect on January 1.

 

 

You will be made to conform, comrades.

 

 

 

 

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17 minutes ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

 

Newsome can lower excise taxes, but the problem with the dope sales is not taxes. The problem is that most CAs (yeah, the same people who voted to make marijuana legal) don't want dispensaries in their neighborhood, so cities ban dispensaries regardless of the state law. You'd think people like Newsome would be able to understand that, under the microscope, dropping the excise tax 4% is not going to move the needle because people will continue to buy off the 'black market' instead of driving to a dispensary. 

 

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California’s legal market has not grown as expected, a problem the cannabis industry and some state officials have attributed to factors including high taxes, bureaucratic red tape and the fact that three-quarters of California cities have banned pot shops. 

 

But hey...look at that view!

 

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52 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

Actually, the things they want to help farmers fund are good things. Compost applications, grazing management, tree planting, etc. is all good stuff.

 

But naturally people have to FUBAR it by referencing the scam that is global warming cooling climate change crisis. Next you note that they could raise $10M, and no one in CA thinks for one minute that any of that money will actually go to the farmers.

 

But hey...look at that view!

 

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On 1/17/2020 at 2:06 AM, Q-baby! said:

Get off my lawn!!!    

#####  old bastard.

On 1/18/2020 at 12:52 PM, Chef Jim said:


They have as most politicians are very good at. Do we start scooping them up and forcing them into treatment centers?  Forcing meds in them?  Forcing rehab?  Even that is a temporary fix. There is no cure for what these people suffer from. 

The ACLU screwed that up 40 years ago.  

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On 2/4/2020 at 2:07 PM, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

 

...he's dodged the corruption bullet for years....where is Gruesome Newsome on this one?..........crickets...

This is fake news. Proposition 13 is a state school construction bond! It has nothing to do property taxes! Proposition numbers are assigned by decades, and go in numeric cycles. There have been a few Prop 13s since the infamous one. The current one is totally unrelated to property taxes. Sheeesh!

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