Posted on 08/21/2009 1:53:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
When our founders created the federal government, I’m pretty sure they didn’t anticipate having its power reach into their carriage houses. Thanks to a particularly asinine piece of legislation called the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act, though, we now have federal inspectors threatening to start investigating yard sales and church bazaars. They say they’re just going to focus on thrift stores and Craigslist … for now:
If you’re planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you’d best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.
The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that’s been recalled by its manufacturer. …
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or — increasingly — digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.
Secondhand sellers now must keep abreast of recalls for thousands of products, some of them stretching back more than a decade, to stay within the bounds of the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
I was in Goodwill this morning and they were looking through the children’s clothing and removing anything with metal buttons, snaps, zippers, etc. Why? Because they MIGHT have traces of lead in them. This means you can’t buy jeans, winter coats, back packs, etc. There were very few sweaters left.
There will be some kids freezing their butts off this winter, I expect...
Not at first... they will gradually boil that frog
Wow, they must have made a really really big agreement with China. First we get rid of all the used cars, then the used clothing, appliances, etc...
You are forced to buy NEW!! New I tell you.
Oh, well, as long as it’s short of drawing their guns at garage sales, no problem.
I wouldn’t doubt the big box stores lobbied for this because they are hurtin’ and see them as competition now.
Holy crap... I could have been a PhD
MD shakes fist at lead paint... curse you sweet tasting paint chips, curse you...
LOL
Great idea in theory, but in practice the purpose of these laws is to give government weasals more control.
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