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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Out of control government is out of control
If I had a nickle for every democrat who understood the simplest concepts of economics... I wouldn’t have a nickle.
I wouldn’t have that many for Republicans, but at least I’d have some.
Need to keep the state government well away from influencing the value of goods on the market. Let the market set its own prices.
That would be true also for wages, to be frank.
New York can just go ahead and go 100% socialistic, become like Venezuala, and the people won’t have to worry about which product to buy because there won’t be any product...
Lawyers are waiting to pounce.
Where is the outcry from the feminists?
...so, then men and women will now be charged the same for auto insurance in NY?
Do we need government anymore?
Don’t think so.
New Yorker liberals: It’s alright for us to tell women what to do with their bodies because we’re liberals!
and that means we meant well.
Discrimination is discrimination with illegal regardless who it is aimed at.
NY, where women smell like mens aftershave because that’s all that’s for sale.
It costs a lot of money for the ladies
to beautify themselves and step smartly
out into society. Just pity the poor
bastard who compliments them on it.
Unless you’re Tom Brady, of course.
Okay, well....If you want to take a field jacket $35.00 and gussy it up with rhinestones another $35.00 and stamp the name of Dries Van Noten as the designer on it and Viola! $3,000 bucks for a bling jacket....
My friend made one for $70.00 bucks all in and designed it the way she wanted it, then sewed her name on the inside for that personal touch...
Nickle is a chemical name for the element atomic number 28, atomic mass approximately 58.7 grams. Take note of the difference
exactly opposite, that is.
In the ‘60s the US brought forth Civil Rights to equal the playing field between the races. In the ‘70s feminism was to be that end all to be the stabilizer between the genders. Now the pendulum has swung way too far and a balance needs to be restored once more. However, the momentum in the opposite direction still has not reached the precipice yet.
The insanity in this state continues! And when election time comes the people will be stupid enough to vote for these insane politicians again.
I’m not really sure that this type of stupidity is fixable without drastic measures.
Obviously, these people have too much time on their hands. What they might need is some nice, soul-cleansing, character-building hard manual labor, for example, digging ditches.
“Nickle is a chemical name for the element atomic number 28, atomic mass approximately 58.7 grams.”
No.
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