Posted on 06/18/2019 2:30:23 PM PDT by plain talk
This week the New York Assembly passed a bill which would ban what they call the “pink tax,” which in fact is not a tax at all, but a price difference for goods marketed towards women. According to New York’s Department of Consumer Affairs, for similar products including clothing and personal care, the women’s versions are more expensive 42 percent of the time and the men’s versions are more expensive 18 percent of the time.
Senate Bill 2679 bans price differences on the basis of gender for similar (note: similar, not identical) products. It could be extra confusing for New York City, which recognizes over 30 genders with enforcement of massive fines.
By passing this bill, the New York Assembly has affirmed that it does not believe women are smart enough to decide for themselves whether a pink razor or vanilla-scented deodorant is worth an extra dollar. Rather than letting consumers choose between supposedly equal but inequitably priced goods, the bill would allow the state to enforce price controls, stripping consumers of their right to choose.
The state would mandate the price margins, and consumers would have to choose between the limited array of products that their favorite brands can legally sell. The idea that women cannot decide for themselves whether a product is worth the price is just a sexism-tinged version of the government-knows-best ideology behind socialism.
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Totally nuts. And the prices on these things change all the time depending on the store and the promotion cycle and other competitive market features.
And who is to say that a pink razor has to be targeted to women, per se? As the article said there are 30 genders!
> NY, where women smell like mens aftershave because that’s all that’s for sale.
Boy, that will really confuse sniffin’ Joe.
> My sister buys men’s shirts and saves good money.
How can she button them? /g
The obligatory: A moose once bit my sister...
There is none. Like many of the other leftist special-interest groups, they are simply a means to an end.
Just like they're shutting up about all the trans-men dominating women's sports.
"Nickel" is the name for the element, and "nickle" is the word for the US coin. The term for the element is a shortened form of the archaic German designation, "kupfernickel" or "Satan's copper." Here "Nick" refers to "Old Nick"--the Devil--thus this element which has many chemical similarities to the element copper, but is much, much harder to win from the minerals and to work as a metal. Shortened for common use, that is just "nickel."
Other references incorrectly attribute this name to other sources, but my memory tells me that I learned this from an early CRC chemical handbook.
Nickel is the correct spelling for both the metal and the coin.
Perhaps it’s time to turn your Spelling Police badge in, Officer...
re: “Nickle is a chemical name for the element atomic number 28, atomic mass approximately 58.7 grams. Take note of the difference “
“Nickle” (programming language) - a numeric oriented programming language.
Indeed.
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