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This was pretty much bound to happen. Next they'll go after each host for all sorts of taxes and penalties.
by beedogs 13y ago
This was pretty much bound to happen. Next they'll go after each host for all sorts of taxes and penalties.
- triplesec 13y agoIndeed. The rhetoric says "evil landlords". The practice is more likely the low-hanging fruit. A bit like zero-tolerance policing: hits the human pawns and ordinary people the hardest and the actual putative bad guys get a free pass, as usual.
- jtbigwoo 13y agoI hope there's a cost/benefit analysis here where the Attorney General's office hits those landlords above a certain number of nights. It wouldn't necessarily make economic sense to go after a guy renting out a single apartment.
- triplesec 13y agoUnfortunately, sense and rationality do not figure highly in the decisions of the big swinging dicks, especially when they want to get easy wins for election charts.