Posted on 04/11/2013 8:46:03 AM PDT by chessplayer
The State of California has one of the worst proposals of any legislature in the country this year with a new bill that would force every restaurant and food service business in the state to commission an expensive "risk assessment" test for every menu item.
Such a test could cost thousands of dollars for every food item sold. This outrageous and cost prohibitive testing would certainly cause all but the biggest chain restaurants to go out of business almost instantly.
In another exercise in nanny-statism, California's State Senate Democrats want this "risk assessment" conducted to determine whether food being sold "contributes significantly to a significant public health epidemic."
The introduction of the bill clearly says that the law would require the food service companies to pay the state for the testing in order to fill state coffers. It notes that without the assessment, the state would have the right to shut an offending restaurant down.
As California politics watchdog Stephen Frank points out, "Pass this and hundreds of thousands of Californians are out of work on Day One--and tens of thousands of Californians have lost their investments and businesses."
But there are other, perhaps unintended, consequences in the offing here. This law would benefit large, multi-million dollar national chain restaurants in as much as it would eliminate their competition at a local level. Mom and Pop restaurants, small local chains, and one-location restaurants could never afford to have expensive tests done for every food item they sell.
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Take away our guns and our food...
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To bad there is not a required risk assessment test for politicians, seems to me it would eliminate most democrats!
Wow! Just......Wow! The governments are systematically taking away an individual’s ability to be in business for himself. With legislation such as this and Obamacare it won’t be long before everyone either is employed by a governmental entity or a large corporation.
I hope it passes and further accelerates California’s demise. We need that state to be the textbook on how not to govern. Greece isn’t working.
Page hit me with a virus alert.
I bet they won’t be concerned by what the truck parked on the side of the road selling burritos is putting in their food.
Small restaurants don’t donate enough (protection) money to these crooks for them to care ...
“Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.”
It was a bad move to ever have full time legislatures in the states and the Federal government.
They should all be part time and not paid enough for it to become a full time profession or a career.
And this guy, Mark DeSaulnier used to own a small restraunt himself. (wonder if he wants to put certain people out of business?) He was a Republican until the public employee union bought him out. I was eyewitness to this.
Oh My ,where the Poor work and eat
this will be fine until the restaurant that is forced to close is owned by a handicapped minority lesbian illegal alien, in which case the law will have to be repealed.
I’d like to see this implemented. You know that one group that this regulation is going to burden the most is inner city Mom & Pop restaraunts. I can’t wait for the screams of Racism.
You know, I almost want them to. I almost want them to make that place an utter smeg-pile... the Russian mode of thought (Petr got a horse, I hope it dies) used to be utterly alien to me, but after being generally beat-down by society, the economy, and laws I can finally understand it. — Maybe it’s not a Christian thought, and maybe it’s a new wave of cynicism, but I don’t really care (and that’s the most frightening thing).
Will the last sane person leaving California please turn out the lights?
And that is a fascist ultimate goal. It means that they have to control only a few large corporations instead of thousands of little ones.
You forgot Muslim
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