Favorite Rejects 2023-02-09 pt1
Resort fees *are* room prices. A resort fee ban doesn’t require bundling — the amenities are already bundled, the fee is mandatory, its only purpose in the market is to make it harder for consumers to assess and compare prices.
George Callas @George_A_Callas
Welcome to our very cool and very normal tariff system where not only is women's underwear slapped with tariffs 10x greater than men's underwear, but is tariffed 3x higher than even our notoriously dumb steel tariffs
Ed Gresser @EBGresser
NEW: After gaining full power in 2022, Minnesota Democrats have advanced a bill to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
As this cartogram shows, there's a tough but real path for enough states to join the compact so it takes effect by 2028 dailykos.com/stories/2023/2…
A bill allowing single-stairway “point access block” buildings could enhance housing and neighborhoods in Washington. Mike Eliason discusses how the bill could be transformative for medium-sized apartment buildings and what it would do.
Story: theurbanist.org/2023/02/07/one…
San Francisco Bay Area was the second fastest growing U.S. metro area in the last 12 months, per @LinkedIn
My fun “mentioning Matt Yglesias” anecdote: I was at an NYC DSA event, and started talking this one dude who began a speech with “I cannot fucking stand Matt Yglesias…” and ended the speech with “…have you seen what he wrote on Land Value Taxes? I liked that a lot! Very good!”
Bridget Read @bridgetgillard
I do enjoy reading the constant upward revisions of the "cities are doomed" stories.
2020: Subway ridership down 95%: NYC doomed
2021: Subway ridership down 66%: NYC doomed
2022: Subway ridership down 50%: NYC doomed
2023: Subway ridership down 33%: NYC doomed
Emma G. Fitzsimmons @emmagf
