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Your Yard Sale Is Illegal (seriously: feds now regulate those too)
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| May 7, 2009, 4:41pm
| Katherine Mangu-Ward
Posted on 05/07/2009 6:25:24 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Thinking of having a yard sale this weekend? Before you do, be sure to consult CSPC Publication #254 [PDF].
This handy 28-pager from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reminds the American people that, thanks to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the government is totally in charge of your yard sale:
This handbook will help sellers of used products identify types of potentially hazardous products that could harm children or others. CPSC’s laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. This includes thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets.
Selling old kids books, anything with metal, paint, or plastic that a kid might use, old clothes or shoes with metal components that a kid might wear? You know, any of the stuff people routinely sell at yard sales? Technically, you could be on the hook for thousands of dollars worth of fines. Obviously, it's unlikely the CPSA goons are going to bust up your yard sale. But putting out a detailed booklet that reserves the right to do so is hardly encouraging about where the implementation of this legislation is heading.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: consumers; freedom; lead; liberty; lping; oppression; product; safety; selfsufficiency; tyranny; yardsales
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Gabz
Oh, cr@p! LOL!
I can’t WAIT to find a way around THIS one, LOL!
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:27:17 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:29:00 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
To show Obama’s gestapo that you are aware of their power and control over your yard sale, each yard sale should prominently display a Nazi swastika flag over their yard sale.
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:29:26 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Politicians always love to talk about "hard work." What the hell would they know about it?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
They can take that handbook, and SHO-X&8@2#.. IT.. UP THE+832#%7@ AS%$&*^ !!!
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:30:59 PM PDT
by
Safrguns
To: bamahead
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:32:11 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Behind Liberal Lines
'O'GOO-ber-mint..
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:32:19 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Of course, you do know that Nazi flags are EXTREMELY valuable now as collector’s items, and thus way too pricey to fly at a garage sale. Maybe if one could find some cheap reproductions....!
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:33:13 PM PDT
by
2harddrive
(...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Fvck ‘em.
Can you imagine FBI agents sniffing around every yard sale in the Nation?
Rotsa ruck, Raggy!
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:33:51 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
When I get around to holding my yard sale the last thing I’ll do is contact the Feds to ask what I can or cannot sell. They may KMWA.
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:34:02 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I wonder what constitutional power gives the government the right to regulate a private yard sale? Oh, I forgot the constitution is now a “living document” and the states are nothing more that administrative districts of the imperial.. uhh I mean federal government.
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:34:29 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: Behind Liberal Lines; pandoraou812
If the FedGov wants to come collect some lead at my next yard sale then drop on by. (+)
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:34:34 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
This makes me want to sell some old lead based paint!
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:35:07 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
FOR SALE: One "Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) handbook" $10 ... $2 ... $1 ... 0.10$ Free?
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:37:23 PM PDT
by
CodeMasterPhilzar
(I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
To: 2harddrive
You got that right. I snatched up a lot of pretty nice Nazi stuff in Germany after the Berlin Wall came down. Of course, I know I’m in for a lot of BS if Napolitano sends her gestapo here to check on me since I’m on her rightwing, extremist terrorist watch list with a lot of my veteran brothers.
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:39:26 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Politicians always love to talk about "hard work." What the hell would they know about it?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Sounds like some states should pass laws protecting yard-sales the same way Montana just did protecting firearms manufacture, sales, and posession. A yard-sale isn’t interstate commerce.
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:39:30 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
"I can’t WAIT to find a way around THIS one, LOL!"Simply label every item in your yard sale as a work of art, apply for government subsidy as a starving artist and sell whatever you want. You'll make a fortune.
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:41:13 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
( O.B.A.M.A. = One Big Asinine Mistake, America)
To: clee1
I would be more concerned that a serial plaintiff would attend yard sales, buy things, and then claim damages. There are probably enough out of work lawyers out there who could realize some income this way. Frivolous lawsuits, here they come!
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:42:40 PM PDT
by
stayathomemom
(Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
To: muir_redwoods
Excellent! Capital Idea! :)
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:42:52 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
This is GREAT !!
run off a hundred copies of REASON's article and hand it out with every sale.
Oue best weapon (wellll, not really ... but ... ) is information.
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posted on
05/07/2009 6:43:30 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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