During a White House announcement today, Joe Biden pledged to have all agencies in the federal bureaucracy begin to target private industry for charging service fees, or what the administration calls “junk fees.” The junk fees relate to everything from bank overdraft charges, to hidden cleaning fees on car rentals, to hotel resort fees and even fees on airlines for seats with more legroom.
According to the White House, the junk service fees disproportionately impact marginalized communities, minorities and low-income households. The airline fees are particularly racist because the airline prices for more comfortable seats have a “disparate impact” (legal term for federal intervention) on protected categories of people.
Poor people cannot afford bigger seats. Poor people are disproportionately minority. Ergo a higher percentage of minority people cannot afford the comfortable seats. That makes charging more for comfortable seats an illegal practice according to the legal theory of ‘disparate impact.’ WATCH:
[Transcript] – […] Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money. But you don’t know it until you purchase your ticket.
Look, folks, these are junk fees. They’re unfair, and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low-income folks and people of color. They benefit big corporations, not consumers, not working families. And that changes now.
You know, we’ve been working on this for a while. I know it’s been a tough few years. But from day one, my administration has been laser-focused on easing the burden facing working-class families and giving them, as my dad would say again, just a little breathing room.
And because of the steps we’ve taken, the United States is in a stronger position today than any other country in the world, economically.
Jobs are up. People are back to work. American manufacturing is roaring back.
As a matter of fact, I’m going to be heading up to Syracuse, New York — that area — where a U.S. company, Micron, is going to be investing $100 billion. I think I go day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Manufacturing computer chips will put tens of thousands of Americans to work.
Working hard to tame inflation with policies to bring down the cost of gasoline, home energy bills, and prescription drugs. (read more)
The justice department’s use of the legal theory behind “disparate impact” was an outcome of Barack Obama and Eric Holder taking office.
The Disparate Impact outlook then became part of the regulatory and compliance system within every agency of the federal government, including the Dept of Labor.
Essentially, it is a progressive legal theory advanced by the long-term members of Lawfare, and it carries inherent conflict with existing law. Take this example…..
The Dept of Labor states that businesses cannot discriminate in employment law based on legally protected categories of person, like race, marital status, nationality, sex, gender, pregnancy, or sexual identity. Simultaneously, it is also unlawful for businesses to hire illegal aliens as workers. When businesses used social security systems to check employment eligibility, they ran afoul of the ‘disparate impact’ rule.
A higher percentage of Mexican nationals were disqualified from employment because a higher percentage of Mexican nationals in the U.S. used fake documents. Because the percentage of disqualified Mexicans for employment exceeded the percentage of Mexicans in the population, the use of the SSI system for employment eligibility was originally unlawful under the rules of ‘disparate impact.’
It sounds crazy, but that’s the way this legal term is used within the federal bureaucracy.
Disparate Impact is the underlying premise behind the regulatory authority Joe Biden is stating today in his approach toward “junk fees.”
This is the larger legal framework behind Social Justice, Economic Justice and Equity.
I suspect he is referring to ‘premium economy’ vs regular economy.
The airlines would respond by just eliminating the extra room and making it all cattle car and raising the basic economy pricing.
Now if you take that logic a little farther, business class is even more racist because you get more width as well as more legroom. Got to eliminate that.
Limosine liberals would not be happy with that.
The other option for the airline is to simply give the better seats a new name. Scrap “economy” and just call it “Premium”.Then there’s economy, premium, business, and on some flights first too.
legroom bees all raycisssssss an’ sheeeeeeeit
This is about as substantive as running for class president and telling everyone there’ll be free pizza on Fridays. This is the least serious administration I’ve seen in 40 years.
Oh, they’re quite serious … about running this country into the ground.
Yep. Nothing the Biden administration is doing is by accident or incompetence. It’s all on purpose and all the DNC candidates who are running for re election right now supported every single bit of it, whether they distance themselves from the Biden name or not. They own it and so do the RINO’s who allowed them to cheat us in 2020. May they all burn in hell for this.
So, airplane seats are racist because a certain race not named is fat? Or Broke?
No, a certain race is too dumb to read what they are buying and feel entitled to the best airlines have to offer. They’re also entitled to avoid paying late fees, financing charges, cleaning fees, etc. They’re professional victims and not responsible for anything.
This misuse of disparate impact could be the opening needed to take the whole house of cards down. These are different products. Otherwise, the people supposedly affected would not be able to afford to fly (maybe that’s not so bad, do we really need to allow every dreg on the demand curve to fly? Notice the increased numbers of fights? This will backfire.
“They’re professional victims …”
you misspelled “grifters”
I read his article aloud to my husband. Reading aloud makes this sound like a comedy skit. Something from the Babylon Bee…
“make this crap up”
yep
Butty-gig has his minions (recent college-of-woke graduates) working up these kinds of narratives all day long
Saw TV coverage about a bridge to nowhere in Arizona, a pedestrian bridge over a dry wash or something
Because ‘minorities’ didn’t have sufficient access to bird-watching in their area but whitey did
or something
Can you really believe they put this puppet out there to do this?
Jill Biden for Elder Abuse charges – rot in prison you glory seeking, coat tail riding wannabe.
Jill, along with Gisele Barreto Almeida (a/k/a Missus Fetterman). Two who apparently put wealth and fame ahead of loving care.
What he means is similar to initial claims that “people of color are disparately impacted by C19.” In this instance, Dr Fauci shot that down quickly by stating it has nothing to do with race and more to do with co-morbidities — specifically obesity.
Yes, people of color have a high rate of obesity. But that doesn’t make C19 “racist” any more than airline carriers not making free seats available for fat people.
It’s one thing for people who are overweight to need some help here and there or perhaps allowed to have their own self-image become pleasing to themselves. That’s fine. But when it is made to affect and harm others, that’s a socialist issue which should not be allowed to stand.
For some cases DOORS are racist as in extreme circumstances, standard sized doors aren’t large enough to accommodate. Don’t expect me to have my house altered for strangers.
This is for legroom, regular seats vs comfort plus vs exit rows vs business class…
The government fix will be everyone gets an uncomfortable seat.
That is, if fact, the very definition of communism.
Or no seat. Standing only, and be happy you have a place to stand.
In accordance with the long term objective of eliminating the middle class.
And eliminating commercial air travel for we unwashed maggots.
I hope this would apply to Hunter Biden on Air Force Two. China is a long way and I’m sure he needed the extra leg room . . . wait, I’m sorry, I forgot–he didn’t have to pay for the flight.
Disparate impact has been around for decades. In NJ, the Supreme Court, under Robert Wilentz in the 1970’s, changed housing law in Nj. As a result of a number of so-called “Mt. Laurel” cases, every town must include “affordable housing” in its zoning plans, and developers can be required to contribute in any town they propose a development. The rationale was “ disparate impact” in a case initiated by the NAACP, back in the 1970’s.
Deer Joe , Poor people dont fly , they are just concerned with eating and staying warm , No matter how fat they are or what color
Sadly, they do fly, they sit in the better seats they didn’t pay for and demand to stay, or sit in exit rows even though they refuse to operate the exit door and are too fat to allow egress. Then, they start a fight and scream racism. Flying has gotten to be like the dirty dog in the sky on some airlines.
They do fly, and sometimes we find ourselves celebrating an empty seat next to us too early, because at the last moment when everyone is seated, an obese citizen is guided to that empty seat next to you. And this has a Disparate impact on thin people, because the oversized folk is always seated next to thin ones!!!
Airlines crowd so many seats into a small area, that they should be called to task BY CUSTOMERS. That will get fewer customers on a plane, so the price will need to increase to accommodate more flights. I hope these dictators see that. But that doesn’t mean independent customers are unwilling to pay a bit more so we won’t get shoved into a cattle car.
My God. Just how much longer are we gonna have to suffer this damn fool who is pretending to be our POTUS? The GOP should have been talking about impeaching him as soon as the catastrophic Afghan surrender happened. I don’t care if they had the votes or not. They could have, at least, talked about it and pointed out that it was a crime against America.
Is there any corner of our world they are not interested in invading and destroying?
Why not take on regular against premium against diesel gas pricing?
Why not bring chicken or beef down more than they are now?
if his daddy was so dayum smart, why wasn’t he president of the United States?
STOP WITH THE FOLKSY TALK, aka LIES! And someone, please define the term “social justice.”
I feel like I can’t afford a Mercedes because of the premium fee, so I have to make do with a lesser vehicle. That’s just wrong. Help me, Joe Biden!
Reagan’s famous quote “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’”
Please…………just don’t.
This is all part of the diversity, equity and inclusion bullshit from Democrats where everyone (just little people) is exactly the same, there are no differences! “marginalized communities, minorities and low-income households” are disproportionately obese! I know that’s not politically correct to say. But don’t some airlines require the obese to buy two seats? Is that a “junk fee”? Does the Dept of Labor state that businesses cannot discriminate against the obese? Just wondering?
Lets stop going along with diversity quit and inclusion and rearrange the words to DIE …. diversity, inclusion and equity…because DIE is the death of America which is what it is really about anyway
Clown world doesn’t cover it. It’s a freaking madhouse. When we run out of diesel and new england freezes this winter, maybe the northeastern liberals will finally get the wake up – the party has been captured by zealots and ideologues – and will drive us ALL to ruin – because we have to “transition” – chasing the impossible dream of not even green energy.
It’s one big lie. What is really frightening are the people still running for the injection and wearing masks. Clown world all around.
Record high inflation, a proxy war that is costing us billions, a recession (yes, Joe, it IS a recession), school children across America showing a preceiptious drop in learning due to Joe’s unecesssary lockdowns, and this and entertaining trannys is what Joe is devoting his attention to???? The WORST administration in my lifetime (and I purposely did not say the worst PRESIDENT, because I don’t believe Joe is running anything- he is just trotted out to make gaffes and embarrass himself in front of the world). What a Shit show!
Save America..
While the world’s on fire, this imposter is full of distractions. So sick of all of them….
Biden is suggesting that people who are very poor have enough money to purchase an airline ticket (and to pay all the other costs associated with travel) but cannot afford the fee for extra legroom. That’s ridiculous. You might as well blame the airlines for disparate impact on people who can’t afford airline tickets at all.
Exactly. The cost of any product has a disparate impact on poor people, and hence on some protected classes. Eventually, producers will have to apply an income-based sliding scale to everyone before they can sell anything. So where is the incentive for consumers to work, and excel, and become affluent, when they just get penalized for it? Sounds like a backdoor to socialism to me.
Madness.
Swatting at butterflies while we’re up to our asses in alligators.
This is no credible official governmental administration this a clown show put on by the TPTB to humiliate, mock, frustrate, confuse, anger, divide and start wars.
You are so right, these manufactured outrages that create problems where none exist have a dual purpose, to demoralize and exhaust us, and to provide sadistic entertainment to the psycos in charge.
the lefties don’t like business class because they think you need to be travelling for work to sit there 😂😂😂
if the airlines cut business and first class, the people who buy the most tickets (aka frequent fliers) will not be happy.
The Babylon Bee wrote this, right?
So was the Micron deal won under Trump? Yep, Trump’s accomplishments!!!
Published July 22, 2019 12:28pm EDT
Google, Intel, Micron CEOs meet with Trump on Huawei and US economy
Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and President Trump met with a host of CEOs from the world’s biggest tech companies on Monday. The attendees included; Sundar Pichai of Google, Chuck Robbins of Cisco, Robert Swan of Intel, Steven Mollenkopf of Qualcomm, Broadcom’s Hock Tan, Stephen Milligan of Western Digital Corporation and Sanjay Mehrotra: Micron, .
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ALPHABET INC.
CSCO
CISCO SYSTEMS INC.
INTC
INTEL CORP.
MU
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC.
QCOM
QUALCOMM INC.
AVGO
BROADCOM INC.
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WESTERN DIGITAL CORP.
“Today, President Donald J. Trump met with CEOs from seven major telecom companies. They had a constructive discussion on a range of economic issues, including the booming United States job market, unfair international trade practices, and 5G technology. The CEOs expressed strong support of the President’s policies, including national security restrictions on United States telecom equipment purchases and sales to Huawei. They requested timely licensing decisions from the Department of Commerce, and the President agreed. The group was also optimistic about United States 5G innovation and deployments” said White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere in a statement.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/google-intel-micron-ceos-at-white-house
Poor people, and even middle class people, can’t afford expensive homes either. Is that racist too? Are we completely done with capitalism and market rates?
To those of you who keep claiming that RINOs are just as bad as Dems … how much more evidence do you need that they are not? No RINO would ever propose this nonsense. This is pure unadulterated socialism and removing the middle class. Only the Dems are seeking to do this.
What a dunce. National embarrassment.🙄
Hey Biden you dumbass the airlines do not ask for ethnicity when one is buying an airline ticket. Even the dumbest democrat voter knows there is no seating or discrimination based on race on commercial aircraft.
passengers know the rules—if you want a better seat you can pay for it. You want to save money, then you get a smaller seat.
Is Biden suggesting that black passengers don’t understand ticket pricing and the airlines rip them off and stick them in crappy seats? How racist and insulting can he be?
Biden has always been a moron and serial liar and his presidency is a dumpster fire train wreck. His incompetent idiot minions make it worse.
Just a note that “SSI” is supplemental security income, more or less a welfare program. It is not social security.
Southwest is in like Flynn. Except for those racist exit row seats with extra legroom. P.S.- the seats are slightly less wide in the first 3 rows, and the last 3 rows. The plane is slightly narrower there.
The grubmint should start its own airline, call i “AmNOtrak” Just to show everyone how great they are. They might manage to launch a Ford Trimotor once in a while.
More typical subtle racism from the self-described progressives. The implication that persons of colour need larger seats because they’re overweight, is obvious. Perhaps Ol’ Joe thinks Stacey Abrams is representative of an entire group of people.
Brandon’s policies inflate the economy causing “disparate impact” upon the poor making day to day living tough. If the poor are struggling to eat, they probably can’t afford to fly anyway. Probably trimming of “junk” government bureaucracy would be a great place to start.
Just another way to eliminate the middle class – if all seats are premium then only the “haves” will be able to travel, and if there is no Ford Taurus, just luxury cars – only the chosen can drive. There are only two kinds of Sneetches and if you are the wrong one, your life is going to suck.