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Why not just require that a car being worked on is registered to an owner at the address? edit: All good points in response. I'm convinced that there is no poi
by ballenf 6y ago
Why not just require that a car being worked on is registered to an owner at the address?
edit: All good points in response. I'm convinced that there is no point in trying to tune the wording of a bad law.
- Retric 6y agoBecause working on a family members or friends car isn’t the same thing as running an unlicensed repair shop.
- 29083011397778 6y agoBecause I did oil changes at my grandparents house when I was younger. I didn't live there, but there was space, tooling, help, breakfast, and an excuse to visit afterwards. "Politicians are idiots, the law should be X" is a trope, but finding a wording that doesn't run afoul of edge cases is very, very, difficult, even before lobbying and perverse incentives make things worse. Note I'm not saying this law was made in good faith, but starting an argument from an assumption of ignorance instead of malice seems more likely to change people's opinion in your favour.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoBecause "unlicensed shops" is a red herring. They're trying to make life hard on the guy that owns a bunch of beater cars and turns his own wrenches. They're basically saying you have to be rich enough to do it indoors and dodge enforcement or you should GTFO because we don't want you here.
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