Thank you, Stan. I'm glad you made this video. Congress-Critters are a huge problem. This fall do not vote for any incumbents. That's how we can invoke term limits.
Sadly voting doesn't work above the school board level any longer - they own that system and they made this very obvious during the past elections. What puppet you want is no longer a concern for those now in control - but if it makes you feel better to vote then have at it - but you should really educate yourself on this matter - there is plenty of evidence and many people around the world yelling this to mostly deaf ears.
Minnesota making landscaping industry or any other labor base collect sale tax for their labor is BS . Waiting for prostitution to be legal in Minnesota so they can tax that.
The main reason for this is all of the large companies take the slave tax off your cheque before they give it to you, they serve the government in fear to try avoid any penalties or additional expenses - not their employers. In a time where people are choosing not to file their slave tax, its no wonder the government is trying to get their cony corporations to enforce it for them.
I constantly employ 1099 employees. My business is right on that edge where I can afford and need employees, but $20 an hour is just what THEY see as income. It comes to almost 38 an hour for us to pay once you include insurance, workers comp etc. And right now, that exceeds what I can afford. I plan on growing a bit larger to do this but I would still want independents so I can get to know them first. My work environment requires immense trust, and I am not the easiest guy to work for. I have requirements of who I want to hire that I can't say publicly so I don't get sued, but I can remove a 1099 for any reason or not hire them. i.e. Anyone who uses pronouns, colored hair, excessive tats, prefer no females, and I always hope for a Christian candidate. That said, I am still learning. I wish I had a mentor here in GA I could pick their minds on growing my business. Everything I have made has been through costly trial and error.
I wish I could agree with your assessment of robotics and automation. I started working at a large manufacturer in 1979. 3500 employees...Perhaps 2000 taking a 4 to 6 week seasonal layoff every year. Sales increased, layoffs went away. Sales increase, automation was introduced. Sales increased, robotics were installed. I retired 5 years ago. The plant where I worked is no more. A new building replaced it. Highly automated. Production runs round the clock 24/7 355 to 360 days per year. All lines produce on the order of five to six times more production, per shift. Mechanics and electricians have been cut to one third the levels of 1979. Total employees, 1500 to 1600. Product lines and new products were introduced in that 40 years. So 2000 fewer employees are producing at rates never seen. Finally....The best part. Lean automated manufacturing has another benefit. Any time some one is sick, the only way to cover is mandatory over time. Vacations, mandatory overtime. If a line increases production from a 5 day operation to a seven day operation....Mandatory overtime till operations is sure the expanded production is need year round. When I left there were folks working 12 hour shifts, seven days per week. Some 16 months straight. The company I started with was a very different place than the company I retired from. Ever seen someone who has worked repetitive work 84 hours per week for over a year. And....Forced to work three or four16 hour days every other week because someone needed an operation or was off sick? It ain't pretty. Automation and robotics were great till production maxed out.
I think it’s very interesting how clueless you were about our government just a few months ago. I really enjoy seeing people wake up and start to see what’s actually going on. Thank you for bringing it to masses.
My whole life has been a nightmare surrounded by beighing sheep. For the first time I finally feel like there is a way out because people are starting to see what is plainly evident.
I have been shadow banned and my accounts have been deleted by YT and many others shouting these truths for almost 20 years now - they now sensor everything...EVERYTHING. I love seeing more people elevate their true education and reduce their ignorance, but it might be a glass of water on a house fire at this point. Simply find a way to survive without this world - you have about 3 years to set yourself up.
I would be happy with a 40 hour work week with overtime being purely optional. I'm tired of working 70+ hours a week just working my life away with little time to do things I want to do.
Well.. Tell your shitty/greedy employer to hire more people to get some load off form you. If they don't form a Union. Pro ACT will let you do that!!!!!!
Flat sale tax. So if you are well off, you want to buy a 1 million dollar boat, boom 100,000 sale tax done. No corporate tax no property tax only loca,l for local projects. No capital gains tax ect
I have been self-employed all my life, since age 19. I'm now 66, and I'm still an independent contractor. I don't take vacations because I take a day off here and there for doctors' appointments, car repair or the illness of a spouse or child. Except for one year in my life, I've always worked from home and have worked far more hours being self employed than I ever had during the one year I was an employee of a corporation. Keep up the good work, Stanley; people need to hear what you have to say!
Stan - I have been watching your dirt and business content for a long time...and I think you are one of the BEST at what you do and the teaching you provide. This new level of content make your channel even BETTER !!! -- God bless you and what you do my friend. Keep the fight going, keep screaming it from the mountaintops. -- Also -- The artwork in your office, both the obvious, and the sublime, is perfect in every way.
we have such a divers set of needs. from the inner city to the outskirts of town into the country. no state has the same needs or wants. what we are butting up against are ourselves. when no area's needs are not met, we become homeless, when the farm is monopolized we all pay higher prices. My point is how are we to deal with each others needs. Because right now you have big business deciding for us. Right now and ever sense the Reagan years, business has been making more and more decisions over the people then we the people have. The will of the people is in dismay and we are desperate to gat back that control we have lost. Its as simple as that. The worth of the worker is being diminished. Where does that put people. needing a safety net. like UBI. The right to work is diminishing because the big business does not want workers. They only want that wealth the customer gives. With a monopoly they get there way. Because there is no small business that c an provide what they can. We simply need our anti-trust and profiteering laws rules and regulation reinstated. Its time to breakup big business and spread the wealth.
Stan, this is a rabbit hole that a lot of people don't want to go down cause, like the saying, ignorance is bliss. They want to stay happy and waking up to this reality that is going to be our future is the scary part that a lot of people are not ready for. Just like 15 min cities.
@@christophercharles7302 yes I know, I always speak the truth and hated for it, I read a bunch of my poems and barely got any attention for it’s all the truth
The fed is working to make digital currency what people use mostly in the future, even if the person paying us gives cash, they have to report who they paid it to.🙄
Im proud of mike rowe. I didnt have much of father figures. Used to watch him as a kid, Part of the reason I worked in the trades/apprenticeships as a kid. Part of the reason ive served in the military.
I work at a major creative company and we’ve been instructed to NOT use AI for our designs unless they develop an internal version. We still have several hundred creatives who are supposed to stay the course at this point… mainly for copyright reasons.
The main reason for this is all of the large companies take the slave tax off your cheque before they give it to you, they serve the government in fear to try avoid any penalties or additional expenses - not their employers. In a time where people are choosing not to file their slave tax, its no wonder the government is trying to get their cony corporations to enforce it for them.
A flaT tax system would put more money into the system than anything else. It's been proving time and time again. We would pay much less, but with everyone paying the same, there is more in the end.
90% of my life. I have been just an employee. But when I go and do work for a friend. Or for an acquaintance of an acquaintance, what that make me an independent contractor. And taking that option away from me is straight up. Not what this union has ever stood for. This Union of states was built on. Let's do it our damn selves. So why are we no longer able to do it ourselves
We would vote for you if you ran for office ,you are a good, honest man ,There was this other guy that I voted for and he had a lot of good ideas that he implemented when he was voted into office and he to me seemed like a caring soul , His name was Jesse , You would be a great person for the job because you care and you have something that others don't COMMON SENSE, Love ya Stan
On the other hand if someone doesn't want to gamble and be in major debt and be an entrepreneur that shouldn't mean they should have to be the working poor with no benefits and no retirement and treated like crap either
I had a contract with a multinational company tell me that i was a full time employe because i was working for the at 36hr a week. I advised them there is 84hr a week i work, i told them i they don't like it find a contractor who only wants to work 3 days a week.
I think what you're saying is the truth and it's really good and all the stuff is scary but having a 9% sales tax would be insane. But at the end of the day, the first step is stopping all these new laws in bills that are trying to take control. Keep up the good work. Helping to spread this information is a good step in the right direction.
Stan, some thoughts from someone in the IT (Web Development) industry. Pro Act... Mike Rowe is right to be concerned. I am very much too. 4 Day Work Week... I'd like a 4 day work week but I want to choose. Not be forced by government to work 4 day work weeks. AI... I am not nearly as concerned about AI. Search engines ingest what is published online. If there comes a day all content found online is all AI generated, the AI can only hallucinate and create bad / false content. It does not know what to believe or trust. There needs to be strict guardrails in place for AI not to wander off. Same with ideological guardrails. They need to be in place. Just look at all the highly publicized inaccuracies of AI due to biased training data. Garbage in... garbage out. As I said, the problem is only going to be compounded as more sub par AI content is produced. As a web developer, I see AI as a tool in my tool belt. AI cannot problem solve. It can only recognize existing patterns in the training data it is supplied. There still needs to be an experienced web developer in control to string together bits on AI generated code into something that is coherent. There is many times that AI doesn't generate code that is secure. So there always needs to be someone reviewing code.
Dirt Monkey for President, you've got my vote and I'm in Canada. Come here when you're done your 8 year term and take over Canada next 😂. Honestly Stan, I understand your argument against AI and robotics etc, but as a small business in Canada, I personally am 100% all in with the AI tools. I literally can't afford to hire a web designer, a graphic designer, a marketing agent etc, I use my own LOCALLY HOSTED AI platforms on MY OWN computer to do all of these jobs and saved myself tens of thousands of dollars. I've been forced to do the same thing with my landscaping business that frankly, you helped me build. I've been forced because of rising prices and taxes to reduce my company down to literally just me, it was cheaper and more economical to replace real living employees who I used to pay $25-$40/hour with machinery that does the work of 5 guys. Gotta love the Liberal Government, raising costs so high that you either fire employees, go out of business or jack prices up so high nobody wants to pay you.
So I am in an interesting position. I am a union member for my day-to-day job for a power plant BUT since my rotating schedule gives me long stretches off, I am also an independent subcontractor in construction and for the first 20 yrs. of my working career I was a non-union roofer. I feel that this is an attack on the livelihood of Americans as if all aspects force employment the costs of everything is going to go up dramatically
I wholeheartedly agree with taxing the rich at least as much as the poor, they always get away with paying less, and I also am totally behind getting rid of the tax on paychecks ! Keep putting the information out there, we need people like you with reach !!
@@techserve4453 : Unfounded biases and unwarranted fears are what creates bigotry. Without bigotry it would be impossible for the very few to oppress the very many. This is why the wealthy elite have used bigotry to divide and oppress The People for thousands of years. It's all just well known history.
@bruced9053 : Isn't it "great" how 45 promised to *raise* taxes on the wealthy elite (him and his buddies), and then the only major legislation he enacted was to massively *lower* taxes for the wealthy elite (again, him and his buddies).
ABOLISH THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING PRACTICES AND PER ANNUM INTEREST RATES WHEIGHTED TO THE FRONT SIDE OF THE LOAN 😡. FOR GOD'S SAKES RUN FOR PRESIDENT😅
Stan, you made a lot of good points in this video, and I agree with what you said. We don't need destruction of small businesses when they are part of making the economy happen, plus the small businesses put quality before quantity to ensure that the customer is 100% satisfied.
Get an ein and a LLC. Make an invoice. There now your still your own boss. The thing that is a real bummer is its just more hoops. Will make LLC friendly states some money.
Im a union guy. There is a place in this economy for both union and nonunion jobs. We need to stand together and fight to stop this. Today, it's independent workers tomorrow it union jobs. Thank god I'm retired.
Just went through a union strike effort regarding Medtronic and the janitorial - a f'n joke - unions are now evil in every sense of the word - they may give you trinkets of love and take a huge portion of your earnings (for the better good of more union) pat you on your ignorance and send you back out to slave labor for them, as long as you show up to a strike with better cars than management because you work less hours and get paid more per hour than many management positions then be part of the destruction you aren't seeing.
Well union guy , I really think even if your not with a union you should get the same wages and insurance that they get. Now what do you think about that? Then we would be on the same playing field.
Glad you’re taking about things going on with this country and issues we are all seeing! I’m happy your using your platform to help communicate these issues.
Robotics did take jobs. I work in an automotive parts factory, the used to use 1 operator for every 2 cnc machines. Now they use 1 robot for every 4 cnc machines. Not saying AI isn't a threat, it is.
Thank you for being a voice and staying on top of all this. I’ve laid bricks since I’ve gotten out of high school, and I’ve always said I’m very thankful and blessed to have a job that gives me purpose. I look around and I see so many people struggling to find that. What has carried me through all these times is a strong faith. I firmly believe we need leaders with strong faith that abide by his word.
I am disgusted with this crap. I am surprised the insurance companies aren’t up in arm fighting against this change, they will be losing out on millions of dollars from the small independent. Unless they finally decided they have taken enough from customers. That ain’t going to happen in this century or the next.
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
"fair" means figure out how much they need, and divide that by the number of taxpayers. This idea that one person should pay 25,000 times what another person pays for taxes is everything EXCEPT "fair".
When people talk about how rich people are, they confuse the calculations. For instance, a house is not an asset but a liability until it is sold. Stocks are not cash until they are sold. So, if I own 10,000,000 shares of a company, am I rich…. Well, no if it was ENRON, or WorldCom, unless I sold them 1 minute prior to the companies tanking. Same with real estate, if you bought in 2007, you probably were underwater as far as resale, then you have to keep up with maintenance, appliances, taxes, etc. hoping it will go back up in value before the neighborhood turns into a crime riddled swamp. So, if Joe Schmo just takes enough cash to live on, and everything else is invested, is he rich or a high stakes gambler waiting for a big payoff.
High stakes gambler at this point - get out now and realize any gains before they crash this entire system - the roll out of CBDC is the end of this world as we know it -
This is probably the best video you’ve made. A I and a 32 hour work week? I had 32 hours in Wednesday of this week with my small welding business I started after these same morons stifled the oil and gas capital projects. It’s Saturday now and I have a few more hours tomorrow morning to finish a project. Tell Mr Bernie all of us real men might have a 90 hour work week
it's in matter of time that no one will have job...... they don't want anyone to work.. this world is coming to a end for humans... yes i was a graphic designer and lost my job back in 2018.
US Chamber of Commerce has a whole series of articles about pro act on their website.They aren't to thrilled with it. Could affect right to work in some states. I'm self employed like yourself.I work in the suburbs or rural areas and sole proprietor. Now if I was a large company with employees and worked in a city with a union.I see a definite problem. My state is right to work at the moment.
Didnt this pass in January and went into effect March 11th? This is suppose to stop organizations from abusing the contract status so they dont have to pay benifits to people. If you work for the same company all the time you are considered and employee and cant be considered a contractor as I understand it. The IRS made my daughter take an accessment test of her title "contractor" and she works the same business everyday. The IRS said the employer must pay all the taxes and penalties and change her to "employee" status. Actual contractors that have their own EIN will operate the same. Atleast this is what I have seen so far.
As a subcontractor im going to wait until they take me to court and get a judges court order against me on any new mandates because i feel theyre not constitutional . sort of like the Jahova witnesses won some rulings in court as far as needing a permit to go door to door . if its a right they cant turn a right into a permission . thats my argument
The Proact in California stops thousands of Independence Truck drivers from picking up loads at the port of Los Angeles.. To me this is a unconstitutional law. This directy impedes the pursuit of my happiness. This could stop volunteer Firefighters. Even though most states require Volunteer Firefighters to take a level of training to be volunteer Firefighters. This would stop Profesional AKA Paid Firefighters from starting a school to train volunteer Firefighters in there area because they are not educator certified. This technically would stop fire departments from additional training until they could get someone educated to college accredited instructor to train other Firefighters.
Yup he’s a grifter and has been his entire life. He’s made millions destroying the working class and forcing them into poverty and big government control.
Many times in my life, I have been an independent contractor. Both my son and my daughter are independents. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! READ "THE TRAP" by James Goldsmith AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND "THE PLAN"! I hear many defining the problems. But what can people do about it? VOTE ? Yeah, right! Seeing the train coming and having the ability to get the hell off the tracks are two different issues. Shalom/gw PS Most people haven't a clue what AI is or what it will do. PRAY!I 😢
My contractors are website writers and editors. Fine. I’ll hire all Canadians, Kiwis, Brits, and Aussies. I am NOT fucking around with 20 or 30 different taxing jurisdictions.
I've been telling people about Unions for a few years now. Without our Unions, we wouldn't depend on China and other foreign adversaries. Also to quote Philip DiFranco. Today's AI is the worst it will ever be. Constantly evolving.
Fairtax, aka: consumption tax. You are only taxed on new purchases, the tax would be roughly 23%, but it's the only tax that would exist federally. The IRS would cease to exist. If you buy $100 shoes, they will be $123, but if your loaded and buy a 100 million dollar jet, it's now 123 million. So the rich would be taxed more then you and me, but done fairly, and no loop holes for anyone. Regardless if your some rich guy making capital gains, or an illegal being payed under the table...the table will no longer exist.
I think he’s narrow minded and the 32 hour work week is meant to be for government workers. To save the government money. In Canada they tried to have something called Filmon Fridays where you had to take a Friday every pay period to save money.
i'm retired now.... BUT if i were young, then i'd be investing my time into learning a lot of different skills, knowledge and abilities.... learning about hydraulics, electric motors and wiring, engine repair and design, computer hardware, chemistry, metals, plastic, wood and metal fabrication, soil properties and how to amend it to what you want, hydrological/ how to manage and condition water, air flow and air filtering and conditioning... some basic interpersonal skills (how to interact with others in order to collaborate instead of conflicting with them), and some good business/accounting knowledge (don't be one of those "hip pocket operators who goes broke every new season).... and most important (DON'T BUY TOYS, WHEN YOU SUPPOSE TO BE BUYING TOOLS OR LEARNING HOW TO MAKE THEM )... invest, invest, and invest (did i say invest enough) and don't spend... saving is okay but remember that the government is making inflation so high that anything you save will be less tomorrow so you gotta invest ... invest in things and ideas that you really really trust, understand, and know about but at the same time you gotta have a wad of cash in case of emergencies (so financial balance is key to withstanding hard times... NO DEBT)... and the most important thing is "don't rob yourself of your time" (don't waste time, even if you're broke and depressed (so what if your wife, kids and dog left you) , you can still be learning how to do stuff)... and don't be a drunk or addict kickin' rocks in a prison yard (be a good person who respects others AND YOURSELF) ... the next generation of winners will be those that can do/learn all things to at least an acceptable level and at least a couple of things really well... wished i was young again, there's great times ahead
The ABC test is the main differentiator. Its a really low bar, too. If you are not scheduling your own hours, have your own registered business and are paying your own taxes. As well as using your own lines of credit. Are you really your own business or are you just pretending because you are afraid nobody will hire you if you demand what you are worth. If all you are doing is the exact same thing as the regular employees if they existed, you are not independent. If you can't go work for the competitors of your customer at the same time, you are not independent.
In the 70's one person with a full time minimum wage job could afford to by their own house. And with a weekend job could afford to pay their own way through college, debt free.
Unions today aren't about protecting labor, they're about protecting unions. There's a huge difference.
Unions now just want your money. If you are a union member and feel you’ve been wronged, they rarely have your back…..
I think it’s about time for all of us to buy dozers and welders and fix this country our selfs.
Thanks Stan for standing up for Truth. God Bless.
Thank you, Stan. I'm glad you made this video. Congress-Critters are a huge problem. This fall do not vote for any incumbents. That's how we can invoke term limits.
Agreed ❤️😊😍✌️🍀🙏😇
Sadly voting doesn't work above the school board level any longer - they own that system and they made this very obvious during the past elections. What puppet you want is no longer a concern for those now in control - but if it makes you feel better to vote then have at it - but you should really educate yourself on this matter - there is plenty of evidence and many people around the world yelling this to mostly deaf ears.
Definitely need the crazies out of there. Bobo the clown, MTG, etc.
I have seen this coming for years. I was a landscaper in MN and fighting it. Big brother wants total control. Stay strong.
Minnesota making landscaping industry or any other labor base collect sale tax for their labor is BS . Waiting for prostitution to be legal in Minnesota so they can tax that.
I understand. I was a one man show. So I wasn't on the radar as . Much.
The main reason for this is all of the large companies take the slave tax off your cheque before they give it to you, they serve the government in fear to try avoid any penalties or additional expenses - not their employers. In a time where people are choosing not to file their slave tax, its no wonder the government is trying to get their cony corporations to enforce it for them.
I constantly employ 1099 employees. My business is right on that edge where I can afford and need employees, but $20 an hour is just what THEY see as income. It comes to almost 38 an hour for us to pay once you include insurance, workers comp etc. And right now, that exceeds what I can afford. I plan on growing a bit larger to do this but I would still want independents so I can get to know them first. My work environment requires immense trust, and I am not the easiest guy to work for. I have requirements of who I want to hire that I can't say publicly so I don't get sued, but I can remove a 1099 for any reason or not hire them. i.e. Anyone who uses pronouns, colored hair, excessive tats, prefer no females, and I always hope for a Christian candidate. That said, I am still learning. I wish I had a mentor here in GA I could pick their minds on growing my business. Everything I have made has been through costly trial and error.
Solid reasons for non hiring there, we’d all be better off if every company followed suit
Amen brother
I wish I could agree with your assessment of robotics and automation. I started working at a large manufacturer in 1979. 3500 employees...Perhaps 2000 taking a 4 to 6 week seasonal layoff every year. Sales increased, layoffs went away. Sales increase, automation was introduced. Sales increased, robotics were installed.
I retired 5 years ago. The plant where I worked is no more. A new building replaced it. Highly automated. Production runs round the clock 24/7 355 to 360 days per year. All lines produce on the order of five to six times more production, per shift. Mechanics and electricians have been cut to one third the levels of 1979. Total employees, 1500 to 1600.
Product lines and new products were introduced in that 40 years. So 2000 fewer employees are producing at rates never seen.
Finally....The best part. Lean automated manufacturing has another benefit. Any time some one is sick, the only way to cover is mandatory over time. Vacations, mandatory overtime. If a line increases production from a 5 day operation to a seven day operation....Mandatory overtime till operations is sure the expanded production is need year round. When I left there were folks working 12 hour shifts, seven days per week. Some 16 months straight.
The company I started with was a very different place than the company I retired from. Ever seen someone who has worked repetitive work 84 hours per week for over a year. And....Forced to work three or four16 hour days every other week because someone needed an operation or was off sick? It ain't pretty. Automation and robotics were great till production maxed out.
I think it’s very interesting how clueless you were about our government just a few months ago. I really enjoy seeing people wake up and start to see what’s actually going on. Thank you for bringing it to masses.
My whole life has been a nightmare surrounded by beighing sheep. For the first time I finally feel like there is a way out because people are starting to see what is plainly evident.
@@LupusMechanicus I hear ya. I can’t say all my life but over 10 years my eyes have been open. Once you see it you can’t unsee it.
I have been shadow banned and my accounts have been deleted by YT and many others shouting these truths for almost 20 years now - they now sensor everything...EVERYTHING. I love seeing more people elevate their true education and reduce their ignorance, but it might be a glass of water on a house fire at this point. Simply find a way to survive without this world - you have about 3 years to set yourself up.
Yep, once you learn and see it, you'll notice it everywhere. Keep on pushing forward people 💪
I would be happy with a 40 hour work week with overtime being purely optional. I'm tired of working 70+ hours a week just working my life away with little time to do things I want to do.
Well.. Tell your shitty/greedy employer to hire more people to get some load off form you. If they don't form a Union. Pro ACT will let you do that!!!!!!
I hear ya. I feel like that on a 40 hour work week, lol.
Payroll tax and cut government is exactly what needs to be done and just make a flat 10% tax
Flat sale tax. So if you are well off, you want to buy a 1 million dollar boat, boom 100,000 sale tax done. No corporate tax no property tax only loca,l for local projects. No capital gains tax ect
I have been self-employed all my life, since age 19. I'm now 66, and I'm still an independent contractor. I don't take vacations because I take a day off here and there for doctors' appointments, car repair or the illness of a spouse or child. Except for one year in my life, I've always worked from home and have worked far more hours being self employed than I ever had during the one year I was an employee of a corporation. Keep up the good work, Stanley; people need to hear what you have to say!
Stan - I have been watching your dirt and business content for a long time...and I think you are one of the BEST at what you do and the teaching you provide. This new level of content make your channel even BETTER !!! -- God bless you and what you do my friend. Keep the fight going, keep screaming it from the mountaintops. -- Also -- The artwork in your office, both the obvious, and the sublime, is perfect in every way.
we have such a divers set of needs. from the inner city to the outskirts of town into the country. no state has the same needs or wants. what we are butting up against are ourselves. when no area's needs are not met, we become homeless, when the farm is monopolized we all pay higher prices. My point is how are we to deal with each others needs. Because right now you have big business deciding for us. Right now and ever sense the Reagan years, business has been making more and more decisions over the people then we the people have. The will of the people is in dismay and we are desperate to gat back that control we have lost. Its as simple as that. The worth of the worker is being diminished. Where does that put people. needing a safety net. like UBI. The right to work is diminishing because the big business does not want workers. They only want that wealth the customer gives. With a monopoly they get there way. Because there is no small business that c an provide what they can. We simply need our anti-trust and profiteering laws rules and regulation reinstated. Its time to breakup big business and spread the wealth.
Agreed
We stand together and say NO. They don't have power over the masses.
Bernie used to add millionaires in speeches, but someone pointed out he's a multimillionaire.
There’s only one problem that I heard and it’s the left wing.
Call your congressmen and other representatives and stop this bs!!
Stan, this is a rabbit hole that a lot of people don't want to go down cause, like the saying, ignorance is bliss. They want to stay happy and waking up to this reality that is going to be our future is the scary part that a lot of people are not ready for. Just like 15 min cities.
you're cooked. A lot of cities are already 15min cities. I live in 15Miles country.. everything is 15miles away.
No double standards and catastrophic to the American people period.
Agreed
FJB too
Last couple videos been great Stan. keep up the fight brother.👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
no double taxation! Period.......
We are more than tripled taxed already
@@shangrilaladeda& It’s Gonna Get Worse
@shangrilaladeda "no one is more hated than he who speaks the truth"
Plato
@@christophercharles7302 yes I know, I always speak the truth and hated for it, I read a bunch of my poems and barely got any attention for it’s all the truth
Come to Canada... Taxes are way worse! 😫😫
This AI stuff makes me think the Terminator movies is turning into a premonition. Just like the book 1984 has turned into a guide book.
AI all over the world is getting more advanced everyday, wouldn't be surprised if that happened!
1984 and Atlas Shrugged are merging to become our real life bit by bit more so every day. Let’s pray that Alas Babylon doesn’t join in too!
Looks like I'll just become a cash only business.
The fed is working to make digital currency what people use mostly in the future, even if the person paying us gives cash, they have to report who they paid it to.🙄
Im proud of mike rowe. I didnt have much of father figures. Used to watch him as a kid, Part of the reason I worked in the trades/apprenticeships as a kid. Part of the reason ive served in the military.
I think Mike has been a bit of a role model to all of us Blue collar guys and gals.
I work at a major creative company and we’ve been instructed to NOT use AI for our designs unless they develop an internal version. We still have several hundred creatives who are supposed to stay the course at this point… mainly for copyright reasons.
Live in Calif. never heard of this. But I'm not going to abide by the Pro Act
The main reason for this is all of the large companies take the slave tax off your cheque before they give it to you, they serve the government in fear to try avoid any penalties or additional expenses - not their employers. In a time where people are choosing not to file their slave tax, its no wonder the government is trying to get their cony corporations to enforce it for them.
A flaT tax system would put more money into the system than anything else. It's been proving time and time again. We would pay much less, but with everyone paying the same, there is more in the end.
90% of my life. I have been just an employee. But when I go and do work for a friend. Or for an acquaintance of an acquaintance, what that make me an independent contractor. And taking that option away from me is straight up. Not what this union has ever stood for. This Union of states was built on. Let's do it our damn selves. So why are we no longer able to do it ourselves
Agreed
That’s directly going to effect my business
9% sales taxes is nuts NO NO NO that's CRAZY
We are 13% in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Yes
In B.C. we pay 13% and a high percentage carbon tax. And an Income tax that is 28% at the lowest tier, goes up the more you make
@@seanmackenzie4432 that's crazy
Glad you brought these things out to AMERICANS!!
Thank you for your videos and keep up your hard work
We would vote for you if you ran for office ,you are a good, honest man ,There was this other guy that I voted for and he had a lot of good ideas that he implemented when he was voted into office and he to me seemed like a caring soul , His name was Jesse , You would be a great person for the job because you care and you have something that others don't COMMON SENSE, Love ya Stan
What happened to a free country! It’s time for us to take action and get our country back!
Agreed Joe, Great minds think alike! 👍
@@Dirtmonkey when you start the revolution,you sir will have plenty of patriots by your side!
On the other hand if someone doesn't want to gamble and be in major debt and be an entrepreneur that shouldn't mean they should have to be the working poor with no benefits and no retirement and treated like crap either
That last part with bernie was facts stan! What a good idea no payroll tax cut the govt im all about it
I had a contract with a multinational company tell me that i was a full time employe because i was working for the at 36hr a week. I advised them there is 84hr a week i work, i told them i they don't like it find a contractor who only wants to work 3 days a week.
I think what you're saying is the truth and it's really good and all the stuff is scary but having a 9% sales tax would be insane. But at the end of the day, the first step is stopping all these new laws in bills that are trying to take control. Keep up the good work. Helping to spread this information is a good step in the right direction.
Stan, some thoughts from someone in the IT (Web Development) industry.
Pro Act... Mike Rowe is right to be concerned. I am very much too.
4 Day Work Week... I'd like a 4 day work week but I want to choose. Not be forced by government to work 4 day work weeks.
AI... I am not nearly as concerned about AI. Search engines ingest what is published online. If there comes a day all content found online is all AI generated, the AI can only hallucinate and create bad / false content. It does not know what to believe or trust. There needs to be strict guardrails in place for AI not to wander off. Same with ideological guardrails. They need to be in place. Just look at all the highly publicized inaccuracies of AI due to biased training data. Garbage in... garbage out. As I said, the problem is only going to be compounded as more sub par AI content is produced.
As a web developer, I see AI as a tool in my tool belt. AI cannot problem solve. It can only recognize existing patterns in the training data it is supplied. There still needs to be an experienced web developer in control to string together bits on AI generated code into something that is coherent. There is many times that AI doesn't generate code that is secure. So there always needs to be someone reviewing code.
Dirt Monkey for President, you've got my vote and I'm in Canada. Come here when you're done your 8 year term and take over Canada next 😂. Honestly Stan, I understand your argument against AI and robotics etc, but as a small business in Canada, I personally am 100% all in with the AI tools. I literally can't afford to hire a web designer, a graphic designer, a marketing agent etc, I use my own LOCALLY HOSTED AI platforms on MY OWN computer to do all of these jobs and saved myself tens of thousands of dollars. I've been forced to do the same thing with my landscaping business that frankly, you helped me build. I've been forced because of rising prices and taxes to reduce my company down to literally just me, it was cheaper and more economical to replace real living employees who I used to pay $25-$40/hour with machinery that does the work of 5 guys. Gotta love the Liberal Government, raising costs so high that you either fire employees, go out of business or jack prices up so high nobody wants to pay you.
I agree with you. A consumption tax would hit everyone which is fine.
So I am in an interesting position. I am a union member for my day-to-day job for a power plant BUT since my rotating schedule gives me long stretches off, I am also an independent subcontractor in construction and for the first 20 yrs. of my working career I was a non-union roofer. I feel that this is an attack on the livelihood of Americans as if all aspects force employment the costs of everything is going to go up dramatically
50 percent of the government isn't enough should probably be closer to 75 percent
I wholeheartedly agree with taxing the rich at least as much as the poor, they always get away with paying less, and I also am totally behind getting rid of the tax on paychecks ! Keep putting the information out there, we need people like you with reach !!
When freelancers are forced to work for who??? Most small business's are niche business's to begin with.
Small biz built this country.........
@@SegoManAgreed
And Amazon made many thousands of small business's close,and now it's a monopoly. He is so wealthy he could buy every one of his employees a house.
Flat tax!
We're already past that now will there even be a currency
@@techserve4453 : Unfounded biases and unwarranted fears are what creates bigotry. Without bigotry it would be impossible for the very few to oppress the very many. This is why the wealthy elite have used bigotry to divide and oppress The People for thousands of years. It's all just well known history.
@bruced9053 : Isn't it "great" how 45 promised to *raise* taxes on the wealthy elite (him and his buddies), and then the only major legislation he enacted was to massively *lower* taxes for the wealthy elite (again, him and his buddies).
Flat tax screws the middle and lower classes.
The flat tax screws the middle class and lower class.
ABOLISH THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING PRACTICES AND PER ANNUM INTEREST RATES WHEIGHTED TO THE FRONT SIDE OF THE LOAN 😡. FOR GOD'S SAKES RUN FOR PRESIDENT😅
Stan, you made a lot of good points in this video, and I agree with what you said. We don't need destruction of small businesses when they are part of making the economy happen, plus the small businesses put quality before quantity to ensure that the customer is 100% satisfied.
Pro ACT doesn't effect him.. If anything it will be good for his business.
Get an ein and a LLC. Make an invoice. There now your still your own boss. The thing that is a real bummer is its just more hoops. Will make LLC friendly states some money.
If we had no payroll tax...we would all be so much better off. We used to pay for our military from TARRIFS. Tarrifs paid all our operating cost.
Im a union guy. There is a place in this economy for both union and nonunion jobs. We need to stand together and fight to stop this. Today, it's independent workers tomorrow it union jobs. Thank god I'm retired.
The union represents and lobbies for people that hate us.
They are screwed and will be the first to go.
Unions can go to hell. Full of communists and democrats, but I repeat myself
Just went through a union strike effort regarding Medtronic and the janitorial - a f'n joke - unions are now evil in every sense of the word - they may give you trinkets of love and take a huge portion of your earnings (for the better good of more union) pat you on your ignorance and send you back out to slave labor for them, as long as you show up to a strike with better cars than management because you work less hours and get paid more per hour than many management positions then be part of the destruction you aren't seeing.
30+ million NEWCOMERS are the 2nd biggest threat to Unions. Joe and Democrats are the 1st!
Well union guy , I really think even if your not with a union you should get the same wages and insurance that they get. Now what do you think about that? Then we would be on the same playing field.
Mike Rowe for president
FAIRTAX would be amazing for our economy!
Glad you’re taking about things going on with this country and issues we are all seeing! I’m happy your using your platform to help communicate these issues.
Robotics did take jobs.
I work in an automotive parts factory, the used to use 1 operator for every 2 cnc machines.
Now they use 1 robot for every 4 cnc machines.
Not saying AI isn't a threat, it is.
We have to get this administration out of office and get some people in there that are for the people and not for the big company.
Great job spreading truth🙏💪👍
Thank you for being a voice and staying on top of all this. I’ve laid bricks since I’ve gotten out of high school, and I’ve always said I’m very thankful and blessed to have a job that gives me purpose. I look around and I see so many people struggling to find that. What has carried me through all these times is a strong faith. I firmly believe we need leaders with strong faith that abide by his word.
Right. Force others to believe what you believe. Sound like freedom to me.. 🙄
I am disgusted with this crap. I am surprised the insurance companies aren’t up in arm fighting against this change, they will be losing out on millions of dollars from the small independent. Unless they finally decided they have taken enough from customers. That ain’t going to happen in this century or the next.
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
Time to head to the hills and escape this efffed up society!!!
Agreed That Would be A Smart Thing To Fo ❤️😊😍✌️🍀🙏😇
"fair" means figure out how much they need, and divide that by the number of taxpayers. This idea that one person should pay 25,000 times what another person pays for taxes is everything EXCEPT "fair".
Agreed
When people talk about how rich people are, they confuse the calculations. For instance, a house is not an asset but a liability until it is sold. Stocks are not cash until they are sold. So, if I own 10,000,000 shares of a company, am I rich…. Well, no if it was ENRON, or WorldCom, unless I sold them 1 minute prior to the companies tanking. Same with real estate, if you bought in 2007, you probably were underwater as far as resale, then you have to keep up with maintenance, appliances, taxes, etc. hoping it will go back up in value before the neighborhood turns into a crime riddled swamp. So, if Joe Schmo just takes enough cash to live on, and everything else is invested, is he rich or a high stakes gambler waiting for a big payoff.
High stakes gambler at this point - get out now and realize any gains before they crash this entire system - the roll out of CBDC is the end of this world as we know it -
People even forget the house/land they have paid off still isn't really their house. The State/Municipality owns it...
Not only taking your rights away, but this would create monopolies, I thought those were illegal.
This is probably the best video you’ve made. A I and a 32 hour work week? I had 32 hours in Wednesday of this week with my small welding business I started after these same morons stifled the oil and gas capital projects. It’s Saturday now and I have a few more hours tomorrow morning to finish a project. Tell Mr Bernie all of us real men might have a 90 hour work week
You know it's serious when the title doesn't end with 4K
it's in matter of time that no one will have job...... they don't want anyone to work.. this world is coming to a end for humans... yes i was a graphic designer and lost my job back in 2018.
US Chamber of Commerce has a whole series of articles about pro act on their website.They aren't to thrilled with it. Could affect right to work in some states. I'm self employed like yourself.I work in the suburbs or rural areas and sole proprietor. Now if I was a large company with employees and worked in a city with a union.I see a definite problem. My state is right to work at the moment.
Didnt this pass in January and went into effect March 11th? This is suppose to stop organizations from abusing the contract status so they dont have to pay benifits to people. If you work for the same company all the time you are considered and employee and cant be considered a contractor as I understand it. The IRS made my daughter take an accessment test of her title "contractor" and she works the same business everyday. The IRS said the employer must pay all the taxes and penalties and change her to "employee" status. Actual contractors that have their own EIN will operate the same. Atleast this is what I have seen so far.
Some countries have gone to 32 hour week.
Evil uses bait and fools take the bite and only after feel the hook at which time evil laughs.
As a subcontractor im going to wait until they take me to court and get a judges court order against me on any new mandates because i feel theyre not constitutional . sort of like the Jahova witnesses won some rulings in court as far as needing a permit to go door to door . if its a right they cant turn a right into a permission . thats my argument
The Proact in California stops thousands of Independence Truck drivers from picking up loads at the port of Los Angeles.. To me this is a unconstitutional law. This directy impedes the pursuit of my happiness. This could stop volunteer Firefighters. Even though most states require Volunteer Firefighters to take a level of training to be volunteer Firefighters. This would stop Profesional AKA Paid Firefighters from starting a school to train volunteer Firefighters in there area because they are not educator certified. This technically would stop fire departments from additional training until they could get someone educated to college accredited instructor to train other Firefighters.
It's creeping communism.
Justin Rhodes and Joel Salation said you need to be able to build fix and grow when the wheels fall off. I know Stan has his plan.
Once again, "Dirt Monkey" is first to know and first to act!
Then why did he watch Mike Rowe who already made a video. 😂
Has anyone ever worked for and got paid by someone poorer than them?
Bernie Sanders used to say the same thing about millionaires till he became one
ahh Bernie - the puppet from hell.
Yup he’s a grifter and has been his entire life. He’s made millions destroying the working class and forcing them into poverty and big government control.
Many times in my life, I have been an independent contractor. Both my son and my daughter are independents. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! READ "THE TRAP" by James Goldsmith AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND "THE PLAN"! I hear many defining the problems. But what can people do about it? VOTE ? Yeah, right! Seeing the train coming and having the ability to get the hell off the tracks are two different issues. Shalom/gw PS Most people haven't a clue what AI is or what it will do. PRAY!I 😢
My contractors are website writers and editors. Fine. I’ll hire all Canadians, Kiwis, Brits, and Aussies. I am NOT fucking around with 20 or 30 different taxing jurisdictions.
Bomb from Dark Star is where AI is going
Agreed
I've been telling people about Unions for a few years now. Without our Unions, we wouldn't depend on China and other foreign adversaries.
Also to quote Philip DiFranco. Today's AI is the worst it will ever be. Constantly evolving.
Greedy coporation that don't want to pay Americans moved their jobs to China. A lot of non union jobs pay close to union job because of unions.
@@ZReddit you're right about China. Not many companies pay like Union. Unless you live in a metro area.
@@ZRedditAgreed
Fairtax, aka: consumption tax. You are only taxed on new purchases, the tax would be roughly 23%, but it's the only tax that would exist federally. The IRS would cease to exist. If you buy $100 shoes, they will be $123, but if your loaded and buy a 100 million dollar jet, it's now 123 million. So the rich would be taxed more then you and me, but done fairly, and no loop holes for anyone. Regardless if your some rich guy making capital gains, or an illegal being payed under the table...the table will no longer exist.
Keep voting Democrat this is what you can expect!..
I think he’s narrow minded and the 32 hour work week is meant to be for government workers. To save the government money.
In Canada they tried to have something called Filmon Fridays where you had to take a Friday every pay period to save money.
Nice one Stan. 🏴🏴👍👍
Let's go Brandon "I agree"😢
instead of raising sales tax, I would flip the debit/credit card charges to the consumer so they see the expense of using the card.
Damn demoshits
Agreed
Got no problem paying sales tax and. From N.H , knowing where money really going my issue
Regarding Bernie: He is from Vermont, need I say more.
Mike Holmes was behind an entire development and every single house had to be redone or Torn down! Sounds like Homes by Holmes got greedy????
Get the book Vultures in Eagles Clothing for income tax freedom as in do not pay it every again.
Thank you Stan
i'm retired now.... BUT if i were young, then i'd be investing my time into learning a lot of different skills, knowledge and abilities.... learning about hydraulics, electric motors and wiring, engine repair and design, computer hardware, chemistry, metals, plastic, wood and metal fabrication, soil properties and how to amend it to what you want, hydrological/ how to manage and condition water, air flow and air filtering and conditioning... some basic interpersonal skills (how to interact with others in order to collaborate instead of conflicting with them), and some good business/accounting knowledge (don't be one of those "hip pocket operators who goes broke every new season).... and most important (DON'T BUY TOYS, WHEN YOU SUPPOSE TO BE BUYING TOOLS OR LEARNING HOW TO MAKE THEM )... invest, invest, and invest (did i say invest enough) and don't spend... saving is okay but remember that the government is making inflation so high that anything you save will be less tomorrow so you gotta invest ... invest in things and ideas that you really really trust, understand, and know about but at the same time you gotta have a wad of cash in case of emergencies (so financial balance is key to withstanding hard times... NO DEBT)... and the most important thing is "don't rob yourself of your time" (don't waste time, even if you're broke and depressed (so what if your wife, kids and dog left you) , you can still be learning how to do stuff)... and don't be a drunk or addict kickin' rocks in a prison yard (be a good person who respects others AND YOURSELF) ... the next generation of winners will be those that can do/learn all things to at least an acceptable level and at least a couple of things really well... wished i was young again, there's great times ahead
someone wreckon if they tax the 1% just 1% 60% of the wourlds problems would be solved with good money managment
Agreed
Stan the man 2024 hell yeah
They're chasing the entrepreneur that became an independent to keep that level of separation from THEM. I 'spose wv isnt even safe from big brother
The ABC test is the main differentiator. Its a really low bar, too. If you are not scheduling your own hours, have your own registered business and are paying your own taxes. As well as using your own lines of credit. Are you really your own business or are you just pretending because you are afraid nobody will hire you if you demand what you are worth. If all you are doing is the exact same thing as the regular employees if they existed, you are not independent. If you can't go work for the competitors of your customer at the same time, you are not independent.
In the 70's small family owned businesses were everywhere. In all urban neighborhoods and all small towns alike.
By the 90's most of them were gone.
In the 70's one person with a full time minimum wage job could afford to by their own house. And with a weekend job could afford to pay their own way through college, debt free.