How about people get guaranteed certain rights and services by the government so we don’t have to worry about whether someone’s an employee or contractor?
Because Americans don't like paying taxes. It's why we revolted against the British in the first place.
That was about taxation without representation, which doesn't help explain why DC residents don't get to vote.
Given modern travel, why not disperse the federal government and simply dissolve the federal district (as was already returned to Virginia)?
There is still the question of compensations. There are limits to how little you can pay an employee, and that will still be an issue in a situation like this unless, perhaps, we have something like universal basic income.
Well, another reason for UBI. And universal access to a high standard of health care. If you make the right policy decisions, you can have high workforce mobility, competitiveness, and efficiency at the same time as having worker dignity.
This.
We can’t because what some low paid contractors call “rights” others call “burden”. Self employment has its perks for those of us that have enough bargaining power