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Trumka, Jr: “Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
Think: Guns
Control is the Goal
Regulation, like time, only ever moves in one direction. The administrative state, what David French called “the progressive movement’s great instrument,” gains ground with each act of rulemaking. And despite the Supreme Court in the last term circumscribing the power of agencies, they remain vampiric in their appetites.
I want to talk about stoves.
This week, Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) triggered a backlash when he suggested to Bloomberg that gas stoves could be banned as the body looks to limit indoor air pollutants. One entirely merited public freak-out later, the CPSC chairman issued a statement assuring Americans that no, he’s “not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so.” Rather, the commission wants to look at other ways to address health risks and strengthen “voluntary safety standards.”
By Judson Berger