Comments on: Federal bureaucrats graciously choose to let the thrift store industry live. http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/01/17/federal-bureaucrats-graciously-choose-to-let-the-thrift-store-industry-live/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: fisk2521 http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/01/17/federal-bureaucrats-graciously-choose-to-let-the-thrift-store-industry-live/comment-page-1/#comment-9516 fisk2521 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:55:28 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/?p=892#comment-9516 I volunteer at a church sponsored Thrift shop in upstate NY. It's purpose is to provide consignment items at a reasonable price. Our clientele is mostly those that cannot afford to pay the high prices at department stores ... so they can put their children in winter coats, boots, infant clothing etc. This new "regulation' was a real blow when it was realized how comprehensive it was. Essentially, it would have put the shop out of business, leaving another empty store in out small downtown business district and our customers would left without a place to get things they could afford. It is shocking just how much power these agencies have; not just in the line of the sale of clothing, but the control of property, the local schools that you think are run by the School Board, but are actually controlled more and more by the state and feds....making education much much more expensive and brininging property taxes to levels that many just cannot afford. I am gratified that the people with the power have determined that they will 'back off' for a while. However, it feels just like the NY State program called STAR (the School Tax relief Program that gives 'rebates' to senior citizens or people under a certain income level. It's not a property tax reduction, but a rebate; meaning essentially a favor and not guaranteed forever. We await our State every year to deterimne whether it will continue or how much....God help us this year with Patterson slapping taxes on everything that moves. More liberals, more regulations, more control, less freedom. Looking forward to the next 4 years, I only see much much more control from bureaucratic organizations like this and less freedom for us. I volunteer at a church sponsored Thrift shop in upstate NY. It’s purpose is to provide consignment items at a reasonable price. Our clientele is mostly those that cannot afford to pay the high prices at department stores … so they can put their children in winter coats, boots, infant clothing etc.

This new “regulation’ was a real blow when it was realized how comprehensive it was. Essentially, it would have put the shop out of business, leaving another empty store in out small downtown business district and our customers would left without a place to get things they could afford.

It is shocking just how much power these agencies have; not just in the line of the sale of clothing, but the control of property, the local schools that you think are run by the School Board, but are actually controlled more and more by the state and feds….making education much much more expensive and brininging property taxes to levels that many just cannot afford.

I am gratified that the people with the power have determined that they will ‘back off’ for a while. However, it feels just like the NY State program called STAR (the School Tax relief Program that gives ‘rebates’ to senior citizens or people under a certain income level. It’s not a property tax reduction, but a rebate; meaning essentially a favor and not guaranteed forever. We await our State every year to deterimne whether it will continue or how much….God help us this year with Patterson slapping taxes on everything that moves.

More liberals, more regulations, more control, less freedom. Looking forward to the next 4 years, I only see much much more control from bureaucratic organizations like this and less freedom for us.

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