Post by High Priestess on Oct 28, 2016 14:27:13 GMT
So says the columnist Brett Arends
www.marketwatch.com/story/new-yorks-new-law-against-airbnb-is-a-total-disgrace-2016-10-28
He says (and I LOVE his writing style):
"Who do the people running the state of New York think they’re kidding?
The draconian new law they just passed against Airbnb isn’t intended to protect the middle class, or the working class, quiet neighborhoods, respectable homeowners, or out-of-state visitors who don’t want to die in a firetrap.
The entire purpose of the law is to protect New York’s rich and greedy hotel operators at the expense of everybody else. It is to shore up their fat profits by banning a strong and growing competitor. That’s it.
Thanks to this law, you and I will pay even more money for that lousy shoe-box in Manhattan with the rattling radiator the next time we visit the city. The extra money we pay will go to those poor, hard-up people who own the big hotels. Some of them are down to their last billion."
Okay here's the part I really like:
www.marketwatch.com/story/new-yorks-new-law-against-airbnb-is-a-total-disgrace-2016-10-28
He says (and I LOVE his writing style):
"Who do the people running the state of New York think they’re kidding?
The draconian new law they just passed against Airbnb isn’t intended to protect the middle class, or the working class, quiet neighborhoods, respectable homeowners, or out-of-state visitors who don’t want to die in a firetrap.
The entire purpose of the law is to protect New York’s rich and greedy hotel operators at the expense of everybody else. It is to shore up their fat profits by banning a strong and growing competitor. That’s it.
Thanks to this law, you and I will pay even more money for that lousy shoe-box in Manhattan with the rattling radiator the next time we visit the city. The extra money we pay will go to those poor, hard-up people who own the big hotels. Some of them are down to their last billion."
Okay here's the part I really like:
...if only Abbie Hoffman were alive today: This law is so blatant, wicked and corrupt that it is crying out for some really clever civil disobedience.
