I feel that a large issue in the current economy is the large gap between the wealthiest and everyone else. The way this affects taxes is deeply relevant. Wages and income are currently being defined in multiple way. An example of this is Uber, which the article discusses as having many employees, yet few employees who are receiving what is a real income with benefits. The risk to government revenue is the large amount of difficulty and cost the contract employee is required to pay is high.
When there is already a gap between the highest and lowest paid workers, adding on a number of workers who are expected to bear the entire burden of taxes the efficiency and equity of the tax decreases dramatically.
To read more about what the "Gig" economy is and how many people are involved in it read more in the New York Times here.
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