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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by crazyjncsu on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:54PM (#24228828)
Uber drivers pay taxes on earnings as contractors too. This at least partially covers ACA subsidies (if not fully).

And we subsidize employer-provided healthcare also, hence its existence.

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by InitialLastName on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:02PM (#24228926)
Employer-provided healthcare is a byproduct of WWII-era price-fixing that gave employers no way to compete on wages (so they started competing on benefits, including healthcare).
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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by crazyjncsu on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:16PM (#24231608)
Yes, but we still subsidize it by allowing those earnings to be tax-free.
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