A former union organizer turned legislator in District 80, Gonzalez has stated repeatedly that the state of California loses $7 billion a year in payroll tax revenues because of independent contractors.
As it turns out, her claim is without evidence and has no basis in fact, according to William Hamm, managing director of Berkeley Research Group’s San Francisco Bay Area office. His team helped lead a study beginning in 2019 about the fiscal impact of independent contracting in California.
Thursday, July 8, 2021
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At last! A new topic! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteEncinitas Snail Pace
DeleteSo, according to "the study", an independent contractor is a thief.
ReplyDeleteThat is what they are putting forth.
And, what exactly is an "independent contractor?, independent of what?"
EU's post highlights not just one, but three whoppers told by a seasoned representative who simply had to get her way and thought no one would catch. She apparently dug hard to find a number she thought no one would question or be able to find. From the article:
ReplyDelete"Where did this $7 billion come from? It turns out that in 2012—so that is eight years ago—a report was put out by a commission to look at independent contracting. The report of the commission says that the nation, not California alone, loses $7 billion—not annually, but rather over a ten-year period, because contractors don't pay payroll taxes. And the report covered all contractors—not just drivers for rideshare and delivery companies or contractors in the high-tech area or the gig economy, but all people providing contracting services."
Gonzalez lied three times, using a number that was: national, not state; that accounted for a 10-year period, not 1; and that included worker data beyond what she claimed she was using.
Lying appears to be a deeply ingrained family trait. Deeply ingrained. Amazing anyone still believes what they say.
The main purpose of AB5 was for the State to get their cut in advance without having to audit contractors.
ReplyDeleteAnd Gonzalez thought she'd help push her bill along by knowingly using grossly inflated numbers. Disgusting.
DeleteHow can we arrange this woman to permanently camp in Blythe, CA ?
ReplyDeleteAnother America hating lying leftist. Say it ain't so.
ReplyDeleteI'll say you're a village idiot, that's what I'll say.
DeletePlenty of Dems reject the liar.
9:53 Considering the topic, I wondered how long it would take you, the broken-record village idiot, to post your tired, ignorant, oft-repeated comment. Well, not quite 12 hours. You would do well to research the topic before post. That way, you wouldn't continue to prove your stupidity.
DeleteSo, gonzalez isn't on the left?, didn't lie? hates her own country trying to rip off tax payers?
DeleteI see now the error of my truthful ways. How could I have been such a village idiot as to point out the obvious.
Darn me for being so upfront. Maybe I need to see the world thru the eyes of leftist where lying is a good thing and ripping off tax payers is joyful and right.
"Ripping off the taxpayers"? Why are Republicans against enforcing EXISTING tax laws for the rich? Can your pea brain understand that our system is totally corrupt.
Delete1:29, kinda tough to enforce something when the left is in charge of both houses and the white house. Sooo, shouldn't you be venting at the left?
DeleteBy the way, what you just wrote makes no sense. I had to read between the lines.
Let me educate the dummy. Increased funding for IRS enforcement is in the infrastructure proposal. Republicans are opposed to this. Your news sources want to keep you properly uneducated on what is really happening. They only report what people like you want to see and hear.
Delete2:28 I'll stop now. But, do the United States a favor. Don't ever vote for anything...never. Try and learn economics and what happens when an Alheimers riddled old man and a fake black fool of a women are voted in. Failure.
DeletePromise??
DeleteSo Berkeley Research Group has offices other than the San Francisco Bay area office? Methinks someone is working remotely! A home office in Crabcrotch, KY does not qualify as an "office". Ballooning credentials is a turn-off man... not believing whatever you're saying.
ReplyDeleteThat you, brother to the liar? Word is you're all over social media freaking out. Hi-larious.
DeleteLiberalism is a mental disorder
ReplyDeleteOnce again...Broken record repeating a right wing propagandists words.
Delete5:45 and 8:24 = Village idiots. Most villages have one, we are blessed with two. Carry on derailing every thread posted.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the article about lying and fake facts from this woman gonzolez? Is it about something else?
DeleteThe village idiots think it is.
DeleteHubris.
ReplyDeleteYes. She evidently didn't anticipate anyone digging up proof of where the $7.5B number came from and what it actually represents vs. her lies. Would love to hear Marco's interpretation of the facts, but it appears he's done with EU other than lurking? Apparently he's apoplectic on other sites....
DeleteOn the contrary 10:29am. you are a traitor to our nation.
ReplyDeleteSaid the village idiot.
DeleteSo says the village traitor.
ReplyDeleteA Trump supporter is calling a Trump denier a traitor?
ReplyDeleteNope. Not even close.
ReplyDeleteThis American patriot and democracy supporter is calling this right wing trumper out, as any and all citizens should.
If you see something, say something. I will continue to defend this nation against the coup trying to destroy our democracy
Insurrection, treason, all apply to this bot, blot, on our local blog.
If anyone does not have a problem with this traitor in our midst, why?
this bored EU reader is calling this right wing and left wing village idiots out.
Deleteget yer own blog already. news flash: no one is buying your broken records.
9:34- I agree. It seems idiocrasy has beset the blog.
Deletehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
7:00 p.m You need help.
DeleteIt reads as though 7:00 p.m is glued to the heshe/sheman rachel maddow.
DeleteIndependent contractors. Small business'...right? Yes, a study of those is needed. They have only been around for a thousand years.
ReplyDeleteYes, by all means, spend money on that study.
Worse yet, replace key factors in the study to suit your own narrative then put thousands of people out of work to further your own political career.
DeleteShe and her brother treat the truth as an optional character trait.
ReplyDeleteIncest!
Delete3:30 didn't realize the truth was an option there.
Delete9:58 AM Nowadays it seems to be a variable and often in short supply.
DeleteYou folks left out the word democrat. There, fixed
Delete3:23 PM Been tuning into psycho Trump lately? Delusional insanity "trumps" lies....
Delete4:03 pm Get help !!!!! Please talk to someone, take medication...or both. If you continue down this path you are going to hurt yourself, or someone else. Hopefully you don't own a firearm.
Delete7:30 AM move to another village, please. I hear Solana Beach is missing their idiot.
DeleteVillage idiots are baaack! 3:23 and 4:03 took a break, back to regurgitate tired idiocies.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Jeremy Kron these days? Holed up in the mayor's basement? Chain around his neck, thrown raw meat till it's time to let him loose in 2022?
ReplyDeleteInquiring minds....
He's been replaced (for now) by other, equally uncontrolled attackers. They come in the sweetly labeled "equity" packaging but in reality there's no difference.
DeleteE4E is renting office space? To do what?
DeleteE4E started last year spreading its message of "disagree with us? you're a racist! want to take our training?" and caught the mayor's approving eye, they've been climbing the government ladder.
DeleteE4E head Mali Woods-Drake was appointed by the mayor to the hypocritically named "Equity Committee" and landed "somehow" as VP of the Pacific View School Board.
Others on E4E are likewise positioning themselves so it makes sense they need a formal spot from which to plan further attacks. Perhaps they'll use the $10,000 in taxpayer money the mayor gifted them with earlier this year for some fancy office furniture?
The current people in power are arrogant double digit IQ insufferable human garbage.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing going forward is for a complete collapse especially in the bullshit real estate (fuck you I own some) worse than 2008 and a complete reset of basically a nuclear bomb drop on California.
That would get some of these assholes attention about how completely fukcing wrong they are about everything.
I hear masks work for nuclear holocaust no?
Ohh' it's coming my friend. For people that own stocks it's been a great ride. But...that was because of Trump. In other words stock holders are just on the end of the winning streak that will soon come to a halt.
DeleteI am ready for what is coming and I hope people with any sense are as well.
Trump era economic numbers were no better than Obama era numbers. I actually follow this stuff. I suppose you think the Obama numbers were "fake" despite the fact they are compiled by the same people using the same metrics...because that's what your news sources tell you.
DeleteVillage idiots once again hijacking.
DeleteMea culpa. I will from now on cease to engage with the broken record. He is a brainwashed idiot who cannot be changed. My bad.
DeletePromise?
DeleteSoooo, 11:26. When Trump took office the Dow was at 18,926 (+/-).
DeleteWhen he left office the Dow was at 31,953 (+/-).
Yaaa' there is absolutely Noooo difference in those numbers. Sorry, I don't practice Zombie math.
And now it's at ~34,987.
Delete12:41, it's referred to as lag time. The market is still in Trump mode. In the not to far future the market will be in biden mode. Buckle up.
Delete6:54 Biden and the Dem Congress will be pouring funds into infrastructure, pandemic recovery, child tax credits, alternate energy, etc. There will be more jobs, more pocket money, more corp profits, etc. so the Dow will continue to rise. Trump was, is and will continue to be a national disgrace. He did far more to damage the economy than he did to help it. He'll do jail time or home confinement with an ankle bracelet.
Delete1:39pm...and the gods said, "let there be trillions in debt, everything is free...freeeee" And it came to be that.
DeleteWhites were beaten and murdered, blacks broke their chains of oppression.
And once again, the American Indian got screwed while non Americans raced illegally across the Southern Border.
Yep...the gods have placed their Holy hands on the citizens of the United States. Tic Toc
5:02 Do you even FRED, bro?
DeleteI'm not gay so I've never "even" done Fred
DeleteGoogle FRED. It's an acronym.
DeleteSo Verdu moving on from Facebook to Netflix: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/netflix-hires-facebook-gaming-executive-mike-verdu-as-part-of-a-deeper-push-into-entertainment/ar-AAMae8a?ocid=uxbndlbing.
ReplyDeleteDoes that mean he's going to be too busy to share kingmaker duties with the mayor's bff? Considering all the fingers the bff attorney has in every profitable scheme in town, the bff dude is gonna be BUSY. Guess he can still write checks to try keeping Blake$pear's trajectory on the rise.
I thought this article was about the lying gonzolez. What happened? Were posters paid to change the subject? Take the heat off of the offenders? Is the pea and shell game? or,
ReplyDeletedon't believe your eyes, listen to my lies.
Does she wear a thong on the beach?
Delete6:24 it is about the lying Gonzalez - the sister :D
ReplyDeleteThe party will rally round her as did for Busby, of "hide in the shrubbery until the cops leave" fame. And that's coming from a Dem, they are an embarrassment.
Sources have been overheard saying that climate change sole cause is the metric tons of methane gas coming directly from Nathan Fletchers bullshit.
ReplyDeletePeer reviewed experts regret to inform us that if Nathan Fletcher does not STFU stat, the entire planet will burn to smithereens.
Not kidding.
So, fletcher is a gas bag, I'm stunned. I knew something was up when he looked bloated, eyes bulging and odd aromas when near by. Psycho, a leftist gas bag.
DeleteVillage idiots.
Delete4:06 has no idea.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely no idea what's coming.
His enemies have AK47'$ + alot of other necessary items.
He's got one thing:
His dick in his hand
You are a village idiot. Are you a third? Thought we had *just* two.
DeleteOK Boomer
ReplyDeleteLorena Gonzalez could end this discussion right now if she provided the source of her claims. What researchers found is that she seems to have taken a statistic that applied to the entire US over 10 years and claimed it applied to CA for one year. Show us where you got your information, Lorena. Or did you make it up?
ReplyDeleteThe current democrats live and die by platitudinal disinformation.
ReplyDeleteThe entire platform they live by is a platform of lies and malfeasance.
The republican party is most certainly a shitshow however make no mistake the democratic party key backer is satan and your life will 10x worse with these clowncar driving miscreants.
Unfortunately the best short term outcome is a financial crisis much worse than 08.
Please God Bring it soon
Yep, in seven short months the democrats have ruined, as usual, good things. As hundreds of thousands of illegals stream across the border, bussed or flown all over the U.S the America hating leftist look the other way. $5.00 a gallon gas...no problem. Crime in big cities is not an issue but race...ohhh' gawd. It's everything and gullible warming. I almost forgot that fraud.
DeleteAnd guess who thrives on the lie of man made global warming...blakespear. It's like a religion for her.
Satan? So said the Church Lady decades ago.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats are the source for disinformation and lies and malfeasance?
You have your head in the ground, or more likely up a former daily disgracer in chiefs rear end.
You seem to like it there, or up there.
If god had anything to do with it, you would not be so compliant a pawn for those who hope to dismantle our democracy.
Fascist.
Village idiot bookend to the Trumper. You embarrass yourselves.
DeleteTaking it local: does Blakespear have an excuse for Lorena or she waiting for the bro to explain it all to her first?
5:57...so the truth is an embarrassment? So what is a lie..the truth? Hmmmm? Please, tell all of us when the truth is a lie...
DeleteI have an example of a lie. biden doesn't have Alzheimers
The sick leaders than intend on restricting the breathing of the children
ReplyDeleteGhouls
the lot of them
suffering greatly before death is too good for them
Anyone that has their children vaccinated are insane.
DeleteAnymore these whackos are afraid of their own shadow.
And now the variant? How many variants? This B.S could go on for ever and yet you clowns continue buying products made in China. You fools
You village idiot.
Delete946 go back into your cave troglodyte
DeleteVillage idiot count up to 5 counting 9:58.
Delete8:33 a few more of us village idiots and we'll vote out the America communist party democrats Tic Toc...comrade.
DeleteOMG watch out folks for "Encinitas Facts" its Marco Gonzalez at his unhinged best. LOL LOL.
ReplyDeleteGonzalez is regurgitating the same shite he spewed 5 years ago: https://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/2016/11/developer-attorney-marco-gonzalez_22.html
ReplyDeleteALERT: Jeremy Kron sighted in several places around town after having gone into hiding, perhaps? Gearing up to "campaign" for the troubled Blakespear?
ReplyDeleteI heard they couldn't find him to serve a warrant.
DeleteWhat is it with Blakespear that she attracts (or is attracted to) the most raving in our community?
ReplyDelete