The New Yorker Discovers That Americans Are Hiding Money from Uncle Sam
25th April 2013
My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
The why of this flight from the legal protections and relative security of the above-ground economy isn’t a huge mystery. Surowiecki tries to emphasize cultural changes that have companies and workers both preferring contactors and temp work, but many of those shifts seem likely responses to taxes and regulations that make traditional employment more expensive and less attractive than it once was. As Surowiecki concedes, “Feige points to the growing distrust of government as one important factor. The desire to avoid licensing regulations, which force people to jump through elaborate hoops just to get a job, is another.”
Ya think?