Posted on 08/26/2013 9:10:49 PM PDT by Nachum
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wanted to send a “message” by fining a department store almost $4 million after they failed to “report immediately” to the federal government that they were selling children’s clothing with drawstrings.
Ross Stores, Inc. settled with the agency in June, agreeing to pay a $3.9 million civil penalty after they “knowingly failed to report to CPSC immediately, as required by federal law, that it sold or held for sale, about 23,000 children’s upper outerwear garments with drawstrings at the neck or waist.”
The company said it settled to avoid costly litigation and denies violating a guideline to report children’s clothing with drawstrings to the CPSC, which the commission contends is hazardous. According to the commission, drawstrings have been responsible for 26 deaths.
Children’s garments with drawstrings are not banned, but retailers can face substantial fines for not reporting the apparel to the agency.
The fine was the largest the commission has handed down in recent years for violating the policy, on top of the millions the agency has collected from big-name retailers for failing to notify the government that it had garments with drawstrings in children’s sizes in stock.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
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“I’d like to report a drawstring.”
Ok, then what?
“Children’s garments with drawstrings are not banned, but retailers can face substantial fines for not reporting the apparel to the agency.”
So the drawstrings themselves aren’t as dangerous as not reporting the drawstrings?
“Department store fined 3.9 million for not “Respecting my authoritay!”.
Hoodies got dem drawstrangs
I want my country back.
a competitor with better finance contributions and connections, probably a chain like Costco or Target,etc connected to someone like Pelosi has connections in the CPSC who can wield these arbitrary and capricious rules to enforce a brand of cronie capitalism and federal racketeering ia more like it
The Consumer Product Safety Commission sent a message, all right.
The message: “We are a bunch of anti-business jack-booted thugs who could never make it in the private sector, so we’re going to harass, hassle and bankrupt those of you who are. Got it.”
What's left of it.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“That’s nice. Thank you for reporting it to us. Carry on.”
guess I forgot the /sarc
Drawstrings bad, gummint good!
I wonder everyday exactly what will be ENOUGH for us to FINALLY
become angry enough to TAKE OUR REPUBLIC BACK!!! This article
SHOULD be more than ENOUGH for us and ALL businesses BUT
unfortunately we will just go on and OBEY these senseless regulations!!
We have all become quiet sheep!!!
Are Ross stores union?
In the good old Soviet Union the government wasn’t as evolved to regulate drawstrings, you can bet!
With Pelosi I think it’s crone capitalism
The government is focused on draw strings while welfare kids are murdering out of boredom. This is what hell looks like.
Heck no, they turn a profit.
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