Whatever Happened to Personal Responsibility?
The DFL Senate has decided to play Big Brother by passing a bill that would outlaw “gift cards that expire or lose their value over time.”
Tell me why we need this law. Anyone who’s that sloppy of a shopper deserves their fate. What this proves is that the DFL Senate is that they think the State’s fingers should be in every segment of our economy. They think that free markets must be overregulated to ‘protect’ sloppy customers from themselves. Shame on them for being that anal.
Gift cards have exploded in popularity, with consumers pouring $27.8 billion into plastic presents during the last holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. But about 10 percent of the cards are never redeemed, said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Katie Sieben. “Customers believe that when they purchase a gift card or a gift certificate, they want to get their money’s worth,” said Sieben, DFL-Newport.
Katie, I’ve got a suggestion. Tell consumers they should verify whether the gift card they’re buying has an expiration date. That’s what I do. It’s relatively simple & totally painless. It takes less than 5 seconds, too. To prove how simple it is, my niece learned how to do that long before she was a teenager. Then again, my niece isn’t a liberal so that might account for her learning this lesson so fast.
Katie, there’s another facet to this discussion that we need you DFLers to understand. People should take personal responsibility for the things they buy. Nevermind. I forgot that DFLers don’t think like normal people. The DFL doesn’t believe in taking personal responsibility. The DFL thinks that everyone’s a victim because big business is out to stick it to consumers whenever they get the opportunity.
How silly of me to think that liberals think logically.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog