By no means thoughts ideology — New York pols are considering just one factor: themselves.
And it’s acquired them promoting out to the higher-bidding particular curiosity, whereas making the lives of common New Yorkers depressing.
The most recent: A invoice to let groceries promote wine, as they’ll in 40 different states, is now set to fail in Albany this 12 months, as lawmaker finish their legislative session subsequent week.
Simply as wine shops and distributors wished.
Plus, this week Airbnb and a few of its hosts have been compelled to sue town over laws that threaten to wipe out their whole enterprise in New York.
The resort business is chuckling.
In Albany, the state’s highly effective the liquor-store foyer managed to stall laws to overtake New York’s antiquated alcohol legal guidelines — together with new guidelines to legalize the sale of wine in supermarkets.
The shops and distributors, who’ve acquired lawmakers of their pocket, are out to guard their market share, in fact; they don’t need competitors.
Easy as that.
But that leaves consumers excessive and dry, dealing with increased costs and fewer locations to purchase their wine.
Why aren’t lawmakers racing to assist their constituents?
Equally, within the metropolis, the Resort Trades and Gaming Council and fat-cats within the resort business have been working to snuff out competitors from Airbnb for short-term room bookings.
Collectively, they poured over $500,000 unto Metropolis Council races through the 2013, 2017 and 2021 election cycles.
Council members returned the favor by passing guidelines — similar to forcing hosts to register with town and certify that their houses adjust to complicated constructing, zoning and different codes, or face hefty fines — which can be so insane, solely 9 New Yorkers have but to be permitted.
That, Airbnb says, is out of 38,500-plus hosts who’ve rented their houses on the platform at the least as soon as since January.
The principles are threatening to finish Airbnb’s enterprise within the metropolis fully.
Now the corporate, and the hosts who use it, are praying the court docket with halt the method from taking impact in a just some weeks.
Once more, lawmakers had not a care on this planet for the overwhelmingly hard-working, middle-class householders and tenants attempting to make a number of additional bucks by way of Airbnb.
They sought solely to please the rich resort pooh-bahs and their HTC union lackeys who fork over money.
New Yorkers have a proper to be livid. And to carry these lawmakers accountable.
