“But it appears that big corps used the tainted products from China as an excuse to pass legislation that is designed to destroy small business and especially folks making craft-type items in their home and selling them online.”
That is usually the reason behind most regulatory legislation. Environmental laws are another area that is really pushed by big corporations to help make their products more “scarce” thus up the price.
Speaking of environmentalists, why aren't they having a screaming fit over this law? I apologize if someone else has already mentioned this, but can you say, landfill overfill? With potentially lead-tainted products? Seriously, the green people are so frantic about making sure we aren't wasteful, why don't they see that this new law is going to send millions and millions of items of perfectly usable children's clothes to the trash, and thus to the landfills. All of which will have been untested for lead. Thus seeping into our ground water and getting back into the children and adults anyway. Where are the environmentalists now?