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Democrat Innovation – ‘Make Appliances Unaffordable For Most Americans’

The Obama Administration is convinced that their latest planned regulatory regime for everyday appliances will put more money in people’s pockets by forcing changes meant to reduce the cost of operating them.

BK-Appliance-AC-RepairPeople who can’t afford a car do save an awful lot of money on gas.  I suppose we could apply this same thinking to microwaves, refrigerators,  stove tops, ovens, ranges, dishwashers (and every other appliance eventually).  If you can’t afford the appliance you will save on all the electricity it would have used, right?

The planned regulations would make appliances cost more. and likley eliminate any and all low cost appliances that can’t meet the governments mandated standards.

While the rules may save a bit of energy (and there is nothing wrong with that, though it should be the consumer choice, not Government Mandate), it will also drive up the cost of the appliances/devices, which will harm the lower and middle classes.

You could argue that there are more important problems in the real world, but then, these people don’t live in the real world.

I can only presume that the government has another plan waiting in the wings to federally finance a right to appliances after this plan makes them unaffordable.  It would include a cash for appliance clunkers pay out.  An EBT add-on to finance the constitutional right to kitchen essentials.  There would be a DNC propaganda campaign to anyone who opposes with the words “War On ___” in them.

And, inevitably, one or two survivors among the current list of appliance makers, who satisfy the regulatory requirements imposed on them to be eligible to receive any “government money” from programs created to offset the increased costs created by other government programs, will be owned or invested in by a majority interest of people who donate large sums to the president or his party or are major movers in it.

It should be noted that a consumers personal desire to realize energy savings (even if the need to do so is based on false notions about carbon footprints and their impact on the planet) is the best way to drive efficiency innovation.   Producers will respond to demand.  Competition to meet that demand at prices points more consumers can afford will create jobs, increase GDP, expand choices, and inspire other efficiencies in production, packaging, supply chain, and so on.

The government’s solution will do exactly the opposite, which is why it is easy to call most of what liberals do “the Democrat war on work.”

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