"Many Americans are making extra money renting out a spare room, designing websites, selling products they design themselves at home, or even driving their own car," she said, according to MarketWatch. "This 'on demand' or so-called 'gig economy' is creating exciting opportunities and unleashing innovation, but it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future."

She cited the need for paid family leave, earned sick days, fair pay, and fair scheduling — all workplace protections that contractors don't receive.

Seriously. This is exactly the kind of thinking that kills good things.

"Oh, you.ve got something nice there. Seems to be working all right, but here, let me just add a few regulations for your own protection."

And the next thing you know, you.ve got a taxi commission. Or a board that dictates what you can do with your property.

Either way, it's all about less freedom and more government.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Monday took a giant step toward letting Democratic voters know she's representing the progressive agenda, calling for tax increases and more regulation on Wall Street -- while making a play for a liberal base that has been gravitating toward Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Clinton also vowed to increase taxes on large corporations and the country's highest wage-earners, an apparent effort to recapture her party's progressive base now captivated by surging primary challenger Sanders and the reformer agenda of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is not a 2016 candidate.

Clinton specifically vowed to revive efforts to institute the so-called Buffet Rule, which is essentially a 30 percent "millionaire tax."

"Those at the top have to pay their share," Clinton said during her roughly 35-minute speech at the New School, a New York City college and bastion for progressive ideals. "Wealthy financiers pay artificially low tax rates."