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October 7, 2005
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Posted by Dave Blount at October 7, 2005 6:46 AM
Moonbattery does not make life easy for landlords. From the Wall Street Journal:
Did you know that in California, child molesters and rapists are a protected class? It's true. Not only are California landlords banned from using the state's Megan's Law database to decline renting their properties to sex offenders, they're not even allowed to warn other tenants that these paroled criminals are now their neighbors. If they do the first, they can be fined $25,000 for housing discrimination. But if they don't do the second, they can be sued for failing to protect tenants against a known danger.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't. It can't be pleasant, being a landlord in California. But who cares? Everyone knows landlords are capitalist exploiters!
A similar approach might be taken toward doctors, some of whom have tried to avoid being looted into bankruptcy by avaricious John Edwards types by ordering every test that might conceivably result in a lawsuit by not being ordered. This of course drives up healthcare costs. Let's have a law against ordering too many tests. Get sued or get fined, the choice is yours. That ought to wipe the smug looks off doctors' faces!
Motorists are another potential application of the principle. Why don't we set the minimum speed above the maximum speed? That way we can give everyone a ticket. It will raise revenues as well as teach drivers a lesson for polluting the environment.
I'm so full of ideas, I think I'll move to California and run for the legislature.
