Hotel fees. The way airlines display ticket prices. Why is the president of the United States so focused on the minutiae of American vacations?
At first blush, it makes no sense. But it becomes a little more rational when you consider both his constraints and his administration’s general desire to control business practices….
All the Biden administration is really doing is shifting people’s costs around.
It’s silly—but perfectly in keeping with the Biden business modus operandi. His administration is openly hostile to big businesses, viewing them not as independent engines of American wealth, innovation, and jobs but pawns to be manipulated for government ends.
[“It’s silly” covers a lot of ground from last night’s SOTU and Biden generally. The drumbeat of his presidency for the last two years is central control, and not just of business but of speech, dissent, debate, and other core natural rights of all Americans. Resort fees is the reductio ad absurdum distillation of Biden’s core value: autocracy. — Ed]
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