The self employed are a solitary lot. That doesn’t mean they live in a bubble, or they’re free of politics in the workplace. How does the election affect you?
The results of the recent politics poll shows that some self employed, work at home professionals don’t seem to have strong opinions about how politics affect their daily working lives. Politics in the workplace matters a great deal to you - and it might all be about to change. How does the election affect you, as a self employed professional?
Politics in the Workplace
“It doesn’t,” isn’t the answer, though for many it may seem that way. After all, you’re on your own. You have to deal with your own taxes at the end of the year, you have to find your own work, you have to take care of everything. No politician really matters to you - you don’t answer to anybody. But, whether you know it or not, there are politics in your workplace.
It’s tax time, and that means you’ll become aware of the self employment tax. You actually have to pay for privilege of working at home. And if you are reasonably healthy and can’t claim state-offered health benefits, then you probably have to pay for your own health care out of pocket. The individual policy you have probably isn’t as affordable nor as medically viable as the one you’d receive from an employer.
That’s politics.
How Does the Election Affect You?
Health care is a banner issue for this year’s presidential election, and health care is one issue which affects every self employed professional. If the self employed aren’t represented by the politics of the nation, it’s because the self employed aren’t making themselves (and their needs) known. Sometimes, politics responds to votes instead of voices.
