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This is where the "Gig Economy" is revealed as the scam it is.

If you rent out your house, it's no longer your primary residence so you can't get "homestead" tax rates. If you use your car as a taxicab, it's no longer a private vehicle so you can't get the personal vehicle tax rates. If you work for a living, somebody has to pay all 15.3% of your payroll tax, and make sure you're paying all other required income taxes.

Uber, Lyft, Air BnB, VRBO, etc.; all of these are scams. Strictly speaking, they're nothing more than webpages with a few upload and download and search functions, with a payment mechanism. But in reality, they're scam conduits for enterprise to evade legal regulation and taxation that otherwise applies to taxis, hotels, and housing rental. They put the costs of starting and running a business onto the worker, while withholding the protections of employment from the worker.

In a nation that was truly run by laws, such obvious evasions wouldn't be allowed.

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