
Mayor Mike Bloomberg Calls for Freelancer Tax Cut
According to a widely circulated email from the Freelancers Union, on Thursday, January 15, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg called for a tax cut for freelancers. New York City is rife with freelancers, and less common, but still present, are billionaires; rarely twain the two paths cross. So in a refreshing turn of events, Mayor Mike sided with the underdogs in his call to reduce taxes on the same freelancers, including citizen journalists and bloggers like this one, who help shape the larger construct of public opinion in the online community. This move by Mayor Mike was a good one because more and more the Internet is from where people get their information; this has strangely become more and more important than what actually may be true. In New…