Re: Freelancer Payment Protection Act

On Thu, 31 May 2012 17:10:22 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:

Tim Wescott wrote:

OK, I know this is contributing to the problem of political posts on
these two groups -- but man this one burns:

http://www.freelancersunion.org/political-action/paymentprotection.html

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Why no?

(A) because I like having work as a freelancer, and this will make
potential clients shy away from freelancers working for them.

Are you in New York? This is apparently a state bill, not national.

It came to me under the heading "this should be law everywhere!" from
someone here in Oregon, so it set me off.

And if it takes off in New Yawk, it's going to look attractive to the
Oregon Legislature and any other legislature with pretensions of
progressiveness.

--
My liberal friends think I'm a conservative kook.
My conservative friends think I'm a liberal kook.
Why am I not happy that they have found common ground?

Tim Wescott, Communications, Control, Circuits & Software
http://www.wescottdesign.com
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