Political Action in Action

[Kevin]

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.

There are other business affected.

Dealers pull mini-bikes and parts

Again they may not be a business killer. Though I did first hear about the story on the radio about a store in Springfield, MO (and I can't find a web link to that one, only this one). The on air report mentioned that one store was worried about going out of business because they had basically carved their niche in the smaller market. As mentioned in that second article, I've heard of some small track owners worried about going under.

Is it the end of the economy? No, not even close, but there are products that folks don't always think about and issues that folks don't always think about and this is one area where I agree that legislation is whacked out.

My views on regulation in general I'm not going to get into, but I'm not a fan of this piece of legislation and it's impacts are more far reaching than people realize.