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.
My heritage is west European. However, I identify as a person of color. My plane seats will now be much less expensive.
I identify as a unshotted (sp?) pure blood high school graduate that supports PDJT.
The data coming out about the clot shot is very damming. Surprised Sundance has not covered it.
It’s a fat tax.
Should be imposed on every seat sold anywhere.
I insist that the armrest is in the down position no matter how obese my seatmate is. It’s been rather tense a time or two.
My seat, my armrest, not my problem you need seatbelt extensions.
So hurtful.
Dictionaries can now put FJB’s picture next to ‘idiot’.
The dictionaries can just add an updated photo of Joey Two Scoops.
Was this the outrage Freedom Riders fought for…..?”Ms Parks that will be another nickel if you wish to ride up here.”
Well, truthfully Rosa did fight for this commie crap.
An American, self proclaiming, Marxist, black professor, named Kelley, studied the roots of the CPUSA in the U.S. and their infiltration of black churches in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Kelley wrote proudly that Rosa Parks attended communist meetings in one of those churches in the 1930’s and learned the militant direct action tactics from her attendance there.
People generally do not know that MLK Jr was trained at the Highlander School in the 1950’s run by 2 communist men. His finance man was a card carrying communist with him until the end and there are many youtube videos of MLK Jr espousing redistribution of wealth and that “riots are the voice of the unheard.”
I never knew my “junk” was being taxed. At least not monetarily.
Soooo … all those tack on Local, State and Federal Government Taxes and Fees are going to be tackled as well???
Last time I traveled the “hidden fees” pale in comparison to the 20-30% in Taxes and 5%+ Franchise Fees tagged on to the Bill by Local, State and Federal government to our Hotel and Car rental Bills.
By the way how can a fee be called “hidden” when it is required for all fee’s to be listed on the bill and for listing of fee’s to be provided upon request???
I think it means they are not part of the quoted price. The fees and taxes get tacked on at the end.
Not in this case…read the interview. Mr. Potato Head and his minions actually believe they are surprise charges.
Not in this case…read the interview. Mr. Potato Head and his minions actually believe they are surprise charges.
Yes, and then we have to put up with how many pounds of carbon will be emitted on each flight! Who cares? So put a diaper somewhere behind the plane and dump it all someplace…ludicrous, I know, but we are now living in absurd world. Every day, it’s a new shiny object to deflect from yesterday’s faux catastrophe.
So only people of Color are big and tall?
What’s next? Eliminating First Class?
This should sure help the single mom working two or three jobs struggling to feed her children because of Bidenflation!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/biden-airlines-charging-extra-legroom-junk-fees-hit-marginalized-americans-especially-people-color-video/
The world is laughing at him.
Me, especially. I had to laugh out loud at this latest scheme….
While Americans weep
99% of duh marginalized did it to themselves.
I despise that term as it creates victims of those that mostly choose their circumstances, and condemns me instead.
One Class.
They will just add the fees to every transaction.
Subsidizing = equity
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Are they going to ban first/business/coach classifications?
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Purely classless travel.
Enjoy!
Like Soviet Russia used to be!
Before I left the industry we were already calling it the flying greyhound bus.
Hey Joe !
Why not just ban all aircraft to save the planet? Or don’t you want to save the planet?
They are powered by aviation fuel that comes from evil carbon, not solar panels nor sails.
Paper airplanes are sustainable!
Watch what you ask for.
One never knows what’s on Top of mind each day.
Never heard that term before his oh so bright Press Secretary used it to explain Joe’s “gaff” regarding the deceased congresswoman. I find it to be a phrase Fetterman helped create after his stroke. Kind of a gobelty gook usage of words that are quite familiar with Biden’s team.
They made it up and then forced leftist media to use it to try to fool everyone that press Secretary isn’t nuts.
How much longer do we endure this charade?
We will not make it 2 more years.
Until morale improves…
Been awhile since I heard that one 😁
It works in so many ways👍
As long as we put up with stolen elections!
If the greatest comedian (take your pick) in the world was behind that curtain he would be saying to himself,”How do I follow that?”
Is the using the terms “folks” suppose to make him relateable.
Obama did the same thing use that word..
It grates on my last nerve.
This is all so twisted, so if First amendment doesn’t apply to private business, how come all these other things do. So private company can’t charge me fees but government can, so if private company can’t discriminate based on heritage or color how come they can discriminate based on my speech or political views?
Not sure how fees can be waived for certain people and not others .
Like everything else OBiden Regime tries to pull – this ends up in the courts.
HEY MAN I FINISHED IN THE TOP 98% OF MY LAW CLASS….LOOK IT UP.
NIne-ty Eight Per-cent!!!!
C’mon, Maaan!
He’s the most winningest winner EVER!
But he ended up looking like a good guy to the moonbats. Then he was struck down by the evil republican majority judiciary. Supposed to make them more motivated to vote, I would guess.
That is why all of these proposals are being introduced now. It is crunch time and it is time to rile up the minions to get out the vote and save the Democrat Party.
Can’t they just rent a plane and fly off to never never land … zi think that would be most helpful
There are price differences for everything. Just bought a replacement oven, costs more if you want convection, air fryer, a fifth burner. Pizza with different toppings. Cars, sunroof, tinted windows etc. disparate impact. I can’t afford a BMW so I am less safe in the car I can afford.
Concert, stadium seats etc. etc.
“I think I go day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.” Yeah, it’s one of those days for sure, Joe.
I’m glad someone is finally tackling this issue that is ripping our country apart.
Maybe next we can tackle the taxes placed on gasoline that have a disparate impact on those minorities who can’t afford to fly anymore as airlines raise the prices of all seats so the pricing is equal.
This is just Marxism. They charge more for front row tickets at events. Duh. That’s racist. I don’t think so.
Biden used to call them “Roaches”
Disparate impact has been around a while and is behind affirmative action and every other race based government program since 1964 when we began having race based programs of an entirely different kind than the ones previously supported by the democratic party and their efforts proved highly successful among the people of color as we have come to call them. Equality by hatchet, axe, and sword. The only way according to the ignorant. A nasty way to achieve equality to be sure. It is also why we have increasing numbers of victim groups needing such support.
I could actually get behind a government push to eliminate junk fees and make sellers price everything but sales tax into their prices. Charging more for an airline seat with more legroom is an obvious upcharge that people are made aware of when they purchase their tickets just like they are made aware that more legroom is available for an extra charge or they could even fly first class. Let’s tear down that curtain and make it first come first served for seating at airports and see how that works out. Not a good example of a junk fee but, we know there are lots of them out there.
Ya gotta love the, it’s been a tough few years, line his script writers gave him implying he inherited the economy. No Joe, it only got tough the day after you sat in the big chair the first time and signed all those papers they put in front of you. That is when things got tough. If you had given us a little more breathing room you might not have gotten the ballot beatdown you are about to get.
WHAT A BUNCH OF CREEPS!!!!!!
Did he find Hunter’s drug stash and start using it? He has to be on some drug.
Wait until he finds out poor people can’t afford to fly and decides their seats should be totally free.
So basically, he’s pretending his inflation is demand side and making businesses pay for it.
The group that has suffered the most from disparate impact is republicans.
The regime will pretend not to notice prices will increase for everyone for all tickets. Hotels will raise rates. Car rental prices will jump.
This is the kind of stupid stuff that collapsed Communism. The regime is going to have to be removed.
Btw, he forgot to mention all the GOVERNMENT FEES – the “let’s hide this” term for TAXES.
Gulfstreams are a basic human right.
It seems Ted Mack’s Gong Show is back on the air.
Well for goodness sake somebody strike it and bring out the hook!
Chuck Barris’ Gong Show
I would never utter the sacred phrase “people of color” with a straight face.
My taxes are being used to pay for Air Force One. Under Biden’s theory, why am I not allowed to fly on it?
So now the seats on planes are racist ? Lol.
I got nothing. Wait…. Nope, still nothing.🙄
Just let him keep talking until Election Day.
They are just Taunting us now.
Geez Louise!
Sure… keep us all busy, busy while the country circles the drain.
All industries have been promised recovery of what they lose from this plus more.
It will come from us, the taxpayer, in the form of government contracts, tax breaks, regulatory favors, grants, recovery funds, loans etc. etc.
Inflation Recovery Act of something such…..
Disparate impact in the National Basketball Association?
Remedies?
White men can’t jump.
Welfare is a $2T junk program.
That’s all this admin has is the tired, taste-like-chicken, bottom rung, low IQ race card… those who support such vapid, racist rhetoric are pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.
You also pay more money for First Class, WTF is this jacka$$ even braying about?
Another “Gimmick” to make it look like they are doing something to help curb the problems he created. Of course if you listen to Him or any Democrat they will give you a long list of who caused the problem . Putan is right on top of the list. Almost every problem we have is something caused as a direct result of Democrat policies.
This guy will say anything , even if it is an easily provable lie . It is very sickening to watch or listen to this Fraud machine. Been that way for the last 50 years . They like him in Washington because his family’s corruption dwarfs everyone elses.
Mayor Pete is like, “Hey, this was my idea ! “
My baby granddaughter has an ear infection. The pharmacy is “out of stock” of Amoxicillan. I’m hearing this is a problem all over. Reduced pharmacy hours. Lack of medications. Lack of workers. People driving all over their towns or counties or states just trying to find basic medicines. Stock up on things y’all, and study up on herbal medicines.
Biden is a jackwagon. The country is grinding to a halt and he’s so senile he just says whatever they tell him to say. We’ve got to take charge of our own lives. The government is not here to help.
Sounds like one of the brain trust progressives that slither around in this administration came up with a real doozy of an idea.
Hard to keep up with all these critical pronouncements (yesterday – “elections in jeopardy/fate of democracy at stake” and today “airline seats too skinny” – like everybody didn’t know THAT already , right ? ) But anyway learned a new word today , I never heard of after that PA . debate, “ableism” , not sure if it is good or bad to be an “ableist” (?) or not . But Anyway I’m still trying to work through the M/F locker room issue for now ….
He really does think inflation is a “high class issue.” Astounding.
Can we maybe just make all of those hidden taxes and fees imposed by government regulations transparent for all industries?
Bound to eye-popping reactions and exploding heads when they are all laid out.
A pipe dream to be sure.
How about fat minorities just lose weight and they won’t need bigger seats.
Maybe that has a disparate impact on food, however.
And people laugh at Fetterman.