Whew. It’s good to know he is taking inflation seriously.
MMM, how do you think he found out about those “resort fees?”
The market tends to resolve any issues with excessive pricing.
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Yeah, but it works slowly.Fortunately we have President Biden to jump in on this issue and resolve it quickly. 
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So, Biden is pandering to those with enough discretionary income to pay for staying at a resort 
Meanwhile, we have people who have maxed out their credit cards, tapped into savings and are falling behind on car payments.
We can house and feed illegals, send them on a free flight to the destination of their choice…
But hey. Those resort fees gotta go!
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Banning fees is just a form of price fixing. The banned fees will just be moved into the base price.
LOL I’m thinking one of his Karen advisors, or perhaps a recent visitor was booking a hotel for an upcoming President’s day vacation and got slapped with a “resort fee”
And that’s how he decides to steer the ship of state, whatever twitter feed, or latest nuisance fee pisses-off someone in his circle he bring the full weight of government against it.
Yeah, just arbitrary micro management by fiat.
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Pretty good summary of the Biden farce in a nutshell right there. You can add in that he managed to make a visit to Ukraine before going to East Palestine, OH…which might end up being its own thread. President Biden makes surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, meets with President Zelenskyy | Fox News
You get charged “resort fees” at plain old hotels.
I agree we have bigger issues, but hidden fees are a problem.
Which is fine, and the desired outcome
How about he wants to pay pensions for the Ukrainians?
It wasn’t until the pressure started mounting and Trump planned to visit East Palestine that the gears started shifting to offer help.
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I agree they are as well. It’s just incredibly tone deaf to address this while so many are hurting financially.
So tax dollars will be spent to actually change nothing.
I guess you fix what you can.
I wouldn’t call putting an end to deceptive billing practices “nothing”.
I really seriously wonder what the Ukrainian’s have on Hunter, and by proxy on Joe that’s worth him dragging us into WWIII…like I said that’s another thread.
In his idiotic state of the Union speech didn’t he talk about nuisance fees etc….
Ok fine….
Who is the grand arbiter of nuisance fees. There’s some low hanging fruit there that pisses people off, high overdraft fees at banks, resort fees etc but once you invite government regulation in that area your liable to end up with another big fat bloated agency of the bureaucracy regulating just to justify its own existence.
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And the free market has a miraculous invisible hand to take care of that.
Besides
I have stayed at 4 hotels in the past 18 months.
Everyone of them had a hidden fee in the form of a state and local hotel tax.
Plus some states charge sales tax on hotels some don’t.
Are those good hidden fees?
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And yet weirdly, the market has failed to address this problem.
I would have thought up front pricing could be something everybody could get behind. Yet here we are.
P.S -congrats on taking your avi back.
Atlantic City Hotel
- 9% luxury tax
- 3.625% state sales tax
- 1% state occupancy fee
- City Tourism promotion fee $2/day if hotel has casino, $1/day if not
- Casino Room fee $3/day if the room is “comped”
- Parking tax $3/day
Immediately outside AC some of the above taxes do not apply but a 5% municipal luxury tax may.
