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CA has generally had good consumer protection laws for decades now.
by azinman2 6y ago
CA has generally had good consumer protection laws for decades now.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoIt is shocking how many Americans hate CA for it too.
- azinman2 6y agoBecause those who don't want it give lots of money to politicians who then train their audience that it's bad, 'job killing', and 'big government' even though it benefits them.
- kube-system 6y agoI'm not sure consumer protections are the reason people dislike CA. CA just has an enormous number of laws. If you pass enough laws you're bound to have a few dumb/misguided ones along with a lot of good ones.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoI’ve personally spoke to people that hate CA because of their environmental protection laws (since it apparently makes polluting products unavailable in other states too), as well as business owners that don’t like the non compete bans and employee protections.
- kube-system 6y agoThat's kind of my point -- those aren't consumer protection laws.
- novok 6y agoThe hate for stupid laws in CA is stuff like CEQA which is ostensibly about protecting the environment, but really used as a blackmail tool for residents to block more environmentally friendly apartment buildings they don't like to protect their city subsidized parking and in the end causes housing to cost more than it should. Or the useless "anything could cause cancer" labels that get slapped on everything so everybody just ignores them. Or the classic prop 13 which helps fuel housing affordability. Or AB5 which will get rid of a lot of gig economy jobs outright and needed 100s of profession exceptions to not destroy even more people from getting employed.