omg Toad, you can't just ask people why they're purple!
RustyEarthfire
joined 1 year ago
If there was a government-mandated monopoly on coffee and it was sold in L/s, we probably would.
That's tough buddy
Oh man, don’t stop
You got it! Here's some other consumer protections the administration has introduced recently:
- Direct filing with the IRS
- Price limits on asthma inhalers and insulin for seniors
- Requiring ISPs to provide consistent up-front information and pricing
- Restrictions on college junk fees and disallowing witholding of transcripts
Hungry for more? Check this out:
White House Statement on Junk Fees
That's from October, so some of it overlaps, but among other stuff there's still a "Click to Cancel" rule working its way through the FTC.
Sadly Biden has been spending a bunch of time on lame crap like climate change, human rights, health care, infrastructure, election integrity, etc., so it might take a bit longer for him to single-handedly usher in consumer utopia.
This seems entirely opposite to my observation. I'd say Biden and his administration are unusually focused on unfair or annoying business practices. In just the past two weeks the Biden administration:
- Set clear rules requiring cash refunds for flight delays
- Banned non-compete clauses
- Set new rules on "junk fees" for credit cards
- Increased the minimum salary for overtime exemption
- Expanded fiduciary duty to retirement "advisors"
- Announced a lawsuit against Live Nation (TicketMaster)
- Re-instated net neutrality
Funny running across this article after reading https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Spoiler: the author does not have a high opinion of Raghavan.
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