Category Archives: Regulation

Insane Ballot Measure to Drive Landlords Out of Tacoma

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Leftists have a special hatred for landlords, who need to be paid to provide other people with housing. When communists took over China, many of them were publicly humiliated, beaten, imprisoned, or executed. In Tacoma, Washington, they are regulated into oblivion.

The Wall Street Journal reports on a 2023 ballot measure that…

…prohibited “cold weather” evictions between Nov. 1 and April 1, and during the school year if the renting family included a student or “educator.”

The effects were as anyone would expect.

“Since the moratorium has taken effect, people are going a year or more without paying rent,” April Black, executive director of the Tacoma Housing Authority, told the local press this month. Some 38% of the public housing authority’s tenants have fallen behind on the rent, up from 15% before the ballot measure, the Seattle Times reports.

Good thing taxpayers are there to pick up the tab for affordable housing deadbeats:

The housing authority has had to tap more than $400,000 in reserves to cover losses…

Some housing providers get carveouts. Others don’t have a seat at the table.

“[I]f the highly subsidized housing groups cannot make their business work in this type of environment, how are small rental housing providers who own just a couple of units supposed to make this work?” asks Corey Hjalseth of the Rental Housing Association of Washington, an industry group.

There are not supposed to make it work, any more than ObamaCare was supposed to make health insurance work. The idea is to drive landlords out of business, creating a housing crisis. Then Big Government can step in and be everybody’s landlord.

On a tip from Varla.

Joy Reid Warns of What Conservatives Want for USA

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When liberals stridently warn us about the fascistic doom the GOP behind Trump has in store for us, they mean more than foreign invaders sometimes getting deported. Joy Reid gives specifics on the fate America could face:

• No income taxes.
• Less regulation on businesses.
• Earn as much money as you want.
• Leave all your money to your children without the government confiscating it.

Brace yourself for a frightening message:

Joyless’s proclamation that Republicans “need people to want fewer things” would seem to contradict her assertion that they will let us earn more money and keep it — until you realize she specifically means they need for people to want fewer things that they did not earn.

On a tip from Wiggins.

AT&T Forced to Cancel 5G Home Internet in New York

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Moonbattery is often why we can’t have nice things. An example from the People’s Republic of New York:

A new broadband law is going into effect this week in New York state requiring internet provider to offer low-income residents access to monthly broadband rates of $15 for 25Mbps or $20 for 200Mbps. As a response, AT&T has decided that it no longer plans to offer its 5G home internet in the Empire State…

As anyone with even a junior high understanding of economics is probably aware, price controls mean shortages. Ultimately the shortages result in products and services disappearing entirely.

“While we are committed to providing reliable and affordable internet service to customers across the country, New York’s broadband law imposes harmful rate regulations that make it uneconomical for AT&T to invest in and expand our broadband infrastructure in the state,” the company said in a statement provided to CNET.

As it descends into end-stage moonbattery, New York becomes less a part of the USA. Kevin O’Leary has advised against trying to do business there.

If the Empire State were to become its own country, private internet providers would be taxed and regulated out of existence. The government would step in to replace them, resulting in little if any internet service. But at least it would be free, meaning that someone else would be forced to pay for it.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Free the Toyota HiLux Champ

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With moonbats pried loose from power, cars can be made affordable again:

For instance, the 2024 Toyota HiLux Champ. It is a basic – a stripped down – version of the Tacoma pickup Toyota is allowed to sell here that stickers for $31,500 to start. The HiLux Champ stickers for about $13k to start. But Toyota is not allowed to sell it here.

Why not? Because it does not comply with pointlessly repressive federal regulations.

There is no legitimate reason for barring affordable vehicles like the HiLux from entering the U.S.market. There is only . . . bullsh[**]. Federal regulatory bullsh[**], for its own sake. For the sake of the make-work of the federal bureaucracy. And once he is formally the president, Trump could end it.

Maybe Javier Milei can lend him a chain saw to cut through the red tape moonbats have been using to suffocate us.

On a tip from R F.

Mr. Wonderful: Blue States Uninvestable

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Detroit was once the wealthiest city in the USA. Then came moonbattery. The Paris of the Midwest succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral, whereby liberal policies drive out productive citizens and investment, leaving behind an ever more toxic concentration of government-dependent losers who vote for ever more pernicious left-wing politicians. Rather than learning a lesson from this tragedy, we have allowed the cancer to spread. Now whole states are succumbing. Kevin O’Leary a.k.a. Mr. Wonderful has tried to warn us:

In a March 2023 clip that went viral this week, investor and “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary sharply criticized Democratic economic policies and called blue states “uninvestable” during an CNN appearance.

“I don’t put companies here in New York anymore,” O’Leary then told “CNN This Morning” cohosts Kaitlan Collins, Poppy Harlow, and Don Lemon. “Or in Massachusetts, or in New Jersey, or in California. Those states are uninvestable.”

It isn’t just the greedy levels of taxation. As O’Leary observes,

“The regulatory environment is punitive.”

Democrats may kid themselves that after they consolidate control of the federal government, the whole country will be New York, so there will be no red states to escape to. However:

“I had a project in upstate New York behind the grid in Niagara Falls for electricity, a global data center we were building. Eventually, it got so bad with the politicians in the local region and the state policy, we moved it to Norway. … Norway has it now. Thousands of jobs.”

Leave liberals in control and they will do to the entire USA what they did to Detroit.

On a tip from MrRightWingDave.

Illinois Democrats Crack Down on Shampoo Bottles

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Freedom is a current theme of Democrats. By “freedom,” the Party of Government means freedom to indulge in degeneracy and kill any children who result. Everything else is to be tightly regulated by Big Government — even shampoo bottles:

The days are numbered for small shampoo bottles in Illinois hotels because of a new law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

Hotels with more than 50 rooms are banned from providing single-use plastic bottles of shampoo, mouthwash and other toiletries starting July 1, 2025.

Illinois Democrats couldn’t find a reason to make shampoo bottles mandatory; therefore, they are forbidden.

Providing guests with the convenient bottles will result in fines of up to $1,500.

From big ways to small, Democrats never rest from their mission to make your life worse.

On a tip from R F.

NYC Dictates Warning Labels for Soda and Hot Chocolate

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Anarchotyranny means that even as the streets devolve into such violent chaos that the homicidal maniac John Hinkley Jr steers clear of New York City, businesses like Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks are not permitted to sell their harmless products without warning labels:

Fast-food chains and coffee shops in New York City would have to slap a warning on menu boards and packaging under a new rule from the Adams administration.

The city Health Department’s first-in-the-nation edict will mean labels warning on food and drinks with more than 50 grams of added sugar, including frozen coffee drinks from places like Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, fountain sodas and even hot chocolate.

Hordes of sociopathic scumbags looting and burning in the name of antiwhite race hate? No problem. Gangs of illegal aliens beating up police officers just off Times Square? No problem. People drinking soda and hot chocolate? Big problem, but no worries; Eric Adams is on it.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Sheetz Set Upon by Feds for Not Hiring Criminals

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Running a business? Prefer not to hire criminals? Hire them anyway — or our Democrat rulers will smash your kneecaps with the racism club:

Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check, according to U.S. officials.

That’s the beauty of the “disparate impact” ploy. Since blacks are more likely to commit crimes, you have to hire criminals or you are discriminating against blacks.

Criminals may be the only identity group more likely than blacks to support Democrats. That’s why they get special treatment at everyone else’s expense.

The feds aren’t going to haul you into court for hiring someone who isn’t a criminal. So play it safe and hire the guy with a record. When the crook cleans out the till, chalk it up to the price of doing business in a country ruled by liberals.

The Feds explicitly do not allege that Sheetz has committed racial animus. They just cite the disparate impact.

They are going to make this hurt:

The EEOC, an independent agency that enforces federal laws against workplace discrimination, is seeking to force Sheetz to offer jobs to applicants who were unlawfully denied employment and to provide back pay, retroactive seniority and other benefits.

Some coincidence:

The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Wednesday, the day Biden stopped at a Sheetz market on a western Pennsylvania campaign swing, buying snacks, posing for photos and chatting up patrons and employees.

The absurdly hypermanaged Biden evoked facepalms at this event, which invited comparisons to Trump that did not favor Creepy Joe:

[T]he overall response to his presence seemed incredibly tame for a sitting president only a few months away from his re-election bid.

Whereas,

On Tuesday evening, Trump had visited a bodega in Harlem, New York, where he was met with cheering, energetic crowds.

It makes quite the contrast:

At least he managed to refrain from sniffing the little girls. The sunglasses indoors are a reminder that he needs to be heavily drugged even to shuffle across a floor; behind them, his eyes probably look like spinning pinwheels.

Then there is Trump, behind enemy lines in deep blue New York:

This underscores that Trump represents the American people, whereas Biden personifies the hostile liberal establishment.

Maybe the bodega will be accused of civil rights violations by the federal bureaucracy too. A worker there has already been prosecuted persecuted by Soros stooge Alvin Bragg for defending himself from a criminal.

On tips from Franco, KirklesWorth, and Heckrules.