The fundamental difference between liberals, Democrats, leftists... and conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians, is the former want centralized government control of anything involving money, jobs, and the economy, and the latter want to leave control of money, jobs and the economy in the hands of private entities both individual and corporate. That’s it in a nutshell.

In this case, the centralized government control is achieved through laws forcing individuals to join corporations and thereby come under the umbrella of greater government regulation that applies to companies but not the self employed.

In the case of the Dutch, they are attempting to force independent contractors who refuse to join a company into direct subservience to the government through things like mandated disability insurance, and labyrinthine paperwork nonsense. The insurance requirement is similar to the Obamacare requirement that you buy health insurance from the government run platform if you are not an employee whose company provides it. Except the Dutch government has yet to set up the insurance plan, whereas Obama simply provided the outlined requirements for private insurers to participate, and as we know, those restrictions resulted in most insurers pulling out of the market so the whole deal collapsed. Why? Because it was a net loss - meaning ultimately a company would go out of business if it followed the government plan. (You would think that would give these people clue...)

Who is this “centralized government” entity who controls and manages these schemes the left so loves?  One hopes people who are well educated on the subject of the industry they want to control and market economics in general, or at least people with very high IQs.

No. They are elected officials, politicians and bureaucrats whose most prominent personal characteristic is narcissistic appeal that gets them into a position of power and authority and that’s where their genius ends. So we have a bunch of people no better than any of us at understanding markets and worse than a lot of us, with the power to shape and change the whole economy from our personal finances to the aggregate health of the entire nation, implementing their “bright ideas” with no fucking clue of the disastrous consequences of what they force on us. But as long as it enriches their own bank account and keeps them in power that’s all that matters.

You could summarize all of the above by simply saying, "those fuckers want all the money."

The TSA is like the FBI... worthless, untrustworthy and populated with liars and corruption.

They both need to be defunded and eliminated.

I’m a very open minded moderate...

I just despise liberalism, socialism, communism, progressivism and everything about the democratic (what a fucking lie that is) party.

Red Flag Laws are another way for the bureaucracy to disarm law abiding citizens without DUE PROCESS.  They hate that we can legally own guns because it diminishes their power.  They are Royalty after all.

It won't take 24 hours before the new law is used to shut down dissenting opinions, under the threat of using the red flag law the way bathhouse barry used the DOJ.

Just like the libs would want to use obamacare to decided based on political affiliation who is allowed to receive health care.

In ANOTHER move towards reducing government nanny meddling, President of the United States (not hilary) eliminated the ban on incandescent light bulbs.

Liberals will surely hit the ground SCREAMING tomorrow that people are going to die because Americans are being allowed to decided for themselves they like.

I have no doubt that Stupid People are already sharpening up their drama queen level outrage at the insensitivity and racism involved in allowing American citizens to make their won decisions about heir lighting needs. Nothing stirs up a progressive (communist) like freedom to decide things, free speech, freedom of religion, freedom to own and bare arms, freedom to petition the government for redess of wrongs, etc... Just imagine the azures and steingars of the world waking up tomorrow in an America where people are FREE to go tot eh store of their choice and BUY the light bulb they think is right for them, instead of asshole liberals deciding for them.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/trump_gives_us_back_our_light_bulbs.html