New Charity, Garage Sale Stazi: Pay Your $15 Million Fine

This reminds me of Bush's insane law -- as part of the Patriot Act[?] on pseudophedrine. You have to provide a driver's license which they scan and sign a logbook. Then if you buy more than 9 gms in a given month, they come to your house and arrest you. No joke! I've seen news articles on it. They don't give a crap that nobody knows the details of this "law". They are thrilled to arrest your a**.

That's your hard working govt at work stopping the terrorists!

Federal Pseudophendrine Law

Lisa, go google the term. They've already been enforcing this. Some feds have nothing better to do than troll around second-hand stores and g'sales.

Good Q on 50 cents! If you've got a garage sale in mind, you'll have to go online and find out.

President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders are crafting an appropriations bill that would boost the agency's funding next year by more than 11.4 percent to $117 million and it's already hiring new inspectors and other employees in anticipation of the funding infusion.

CPSC is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are either directly related to this product recall or involve a different hazard with the same product. Please tell us about it by visiting www.cpsc.gov To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, call CPSC's Hotline at .....[stazi tattle phone number here]

Obama is funding this. One site I found was the act was originally passed by Bush.

It appears that it is a new liability shift to the seller (as opposed to manufacturer), somebody to come after when an incident occurs.

Most likely the $1 doesn't mean anything. It was just illustrative that people slap $1 price tags and may incur a $15Million fine.

#7 Lisa,
Is not just toxicity, it's anything recalled, like for example has small parts that can break off. Thousands of past recalled products for many different reasons fall under this.

Story

There was already a strong effort by many in the second hand retailing sector to pull recalled items from the shelf (or even keep them from ever reaching the shelves). This law isn't even necessary! Many outlets that sell second hand goods voluntarily subscribe to a professional association that requires them to do what the new law DEMANDS!

Adele Meyer is the executive director of the National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops, which represents more than 1,100 store owners.

"Even before it was criminal to resell recalled goods, our members have always been diligent because children's safety is always foremost in their minds," she said. "But having consumers look out for recalled products that are sold at garage sales and flea markets, that is a problem, and hopefully this law will help."

The story goes on to detail how a mother and 12 year old daughter reacted when informed of their status as potential criminals because of their attempt to sell the girls unwanted doll collection. In order to be in compliance with the statute,

Nancy and Laura Lothrop must do a painstaking inventory of her collection, searching for tiny model numbers to see whether they match any of the recalled items. If they find matches, they'll pull the recalled dolls and accessories from the group that they're selling."

#25 chair-born
Nanny state bullshit. Just what the obamaites love

Besides partisan blindness, how exactly is the point not made. Anyone could easily post dozens of other nanny-state stories. Besides, did you not see above where I posted that according to one source, GWB actually passed the law?