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New York Tries to Shut Down the New Economy to Protect Special Interests
Freedomworks ^ | October 28, 2016 | Kenny Stein

Posted on 10/30/2016 12:12:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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1 posted on 10/30/2016 12:12:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

PING!


2 posted on 10/30/2016 12:14:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So glad I live in the middle of nowhere in flyover country.


3 posted on 10/30/2016 12:15:30 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"My house is available for rent."

This is constitutionally protected free speech, not a crime. It amazes me the variety of speech that the left would like to criminalize.

4 posted on 10/30/2016 12:16:08 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When I was in chaplaincy training, an uber-lib lesbian co-trainee (long story) was renting her apartment through airbnb in order to get enough cash to survive on.

Wonder what she thinks of this now.


5 posted on 10/30/2016 12:17:16 PM PDT by Luircin (Stomp Hillary, build wall, stop Islam. Any of the above are good reasons to vote. Trump 2016)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How dare the little entrepreneur try to make some money while the criminal elitist politicians can steal money from you


6 posted on 10/30/2016 12:21:00 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just a note: There are many sites exactly the same as Airbnb. I don’t see how they have the manpower to monitor all of them.


7 posted on 10/30/2016 12:24:43 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

3... 2... 1... “Trump’s fault!”


8 posted on 10/30/2016 12:25:38 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Life in the Marxist State.

The commissars get the dachas, the peons get the KGB.


9 posted on 10/30/2016 12:29:21 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SSS Two
There are some major abusers of AirBnB. They are basically running hotels without adhering to all of the rules, regulations, and taxes imposed on other hotels.

There are apartment owners kicking out all of their tenants and turning their apartments intended for long term leases into short term rental hotels.

These apartments are located in parts of the city not zoned for hotels.

Constant turnover of vacation rentals who tend to be noisier and less responsible than the residents are suffered by the residents and not the often absentee landlords.

So it's not all black and white.

In the short run it might be nice for this guy or that guy to get away without paying all the taxes and adhering to all the regulations voted in by the populous and enacted by their representatives.

However, in the long run if everyone is required to pay all the taxes and adhere to all the regulations then there will be a groundswell to lower taxes and regulations.

For cynics, it will never be the case that taxes are too low or regulations are too few. So they believe that anyone that can get away being a scofflaw should do so.

Cynicism goes against the grain of American optimism.

10 posted on 10/30/2016 12:32:28 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Hotel, restaurant and taxi companies are trying to crush the competition, ie, destroy freedom, with the help of politicians.

New Yorkers need to stand up and say, “Hell no!”. New Yorkers need to vote with their dollars and make the crony capitalists back down.


11 posted on 10/30/2016 12:32:56 PM PDT by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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A huge chunk of the rooms offered through AirBnB are not little entrepreneurs, but major scofflaws turning blocks of apartment units, or even entire apartments, into illegal hotels.

if AirBnB cracked down on all of these their business model would collapse. So they occasionally pretend to crack down on misusers, but not so much to hurt their bottom line.

12 posted on 10/30/2016 12:34:45 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Serious litigation ahead. That is what rats enjoy. Billable hours. Will eventually be in the Supreme Court.


13 posted on 10/30/2016 12:36:58 PM PDT by ncfool ( We are in the United Socialist State of aMeriKa. The USSA. Sheeple of aMeriKa)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not from New York, but curious if Cuomo, and company of NY is as corrupt as the Clintons.


14 posted on 10/30/2016 12:38:11 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to shut them down.)
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To: Lorianne

I know a condo manager in South Florida who runs his addresses through 6 English language sites once a month to make sure no one is renting AirBNB style. Didn’t work — he had two Austrian stewardesses that would have gotten away with it but for their propensity for topless sunbathing.

The world is changing.


15 posted on 10/30/2016 12:59:20 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Lorianne
I'm not totally opposed to what this law is trying to do, but a couple of things immediately came to mind when I saw this article last week:

1. If a New York City property owner advertises his home on a website that blocks New York IP addresses, would New York even have any jurisdiction over it anyway?

2. The law is probably pointless to a large degree, since most of the housing units in NYC are either rentals, condominiums, or co-ops ... which means they'd be governed by lease or deed restrictions anyway.

16 posted on 10/30/2016 1:15:35 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I agree with your post. I sure as hell wouldn’t want someone running a short-term rental operation next door to me.


17 posted on 10/30/2016 1:17:14 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: joshua c
Hotel, restaurant and taxi companies are trying to crush the competition, ie, destroy freedom, with the help of politicians.

That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that these companies are simply asking everyone operating in these industries to be held to the same standards under the law.

If a hotel is forced to collect a hotel/tourist tax from customers, and is subject to regular inspections by the health department, doesn't it seem fair that an Airbnb property should, too?

18 posted on 10/30/2016 1:20:46 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You could not pay me to go to New York State.

For any reason.


19 posted on 10/30/2016 1:26:02 PM PDT by Lazamataz (MSM ignoring Hillary's health until forced, shows us they are the MPM: Ministry of Propaganda Media)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Are you arguing in favor of prosecuting people who write “My house is for rent” on the internet?


20 posted on 10/30/2016 2:24:26 PM PDT by SSS Two
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