Political Action in Action

[kandrathe]

It sounds like this has gone from the apocalyptic end of all crafts business, thrift stores, libraries, booksellers and knitting grannies into a minor to moderate inventory purge for sellers of kids' plastic toys.

Maybe they should set up some kind of tax rebate to compensate for the losses.

-Jester

Edit: Whoops, they even gave classic kids' books the okay, since they're classified as collectors' items, not play toys.

No, it's quite profoundly the most idiotic piece of legislation since the prohibition of alcohol. Booksellers may be burning their kids books, rather than deal with the hassles. Right now it is up in the air until next January. This affects much much more than you might think. For example, an older game like "Axis and Allies" ages 12 and up might not be resell-able anymore since the top age on the CPSIA is also 12.