Federal Government Putting Small Toymakers Out of Business
Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Sat, 10/31/2009 - 01:26
By LESLIE WAYNE | New York Times
October 30, 2009
For 35 years, William John Woods has made wooden toys for children. Each one of the 2,000 or so he makes each year passes through his hands at his shop in Ogunquit, Maine, and no child, he said, has ever been hurt by one of his small boats, cars, helicopters or rattles.
But now he and others like him — makers of small toys and owners of toy resale shops and boutique stores — say their livelihood is being threatened by federal legislation enacted in the last year to protect children from toxic toys through more extensive testing. Big toymakers, including those whose tainted imports from China led to the recall of 45 million toys and spurred Congress to take action, have more resources and are able to comply with the new law’s requirements.
“This is absurd,” said Mr. Woods, whose toys are made of maple, walnut and cherry and finished with walnut oil and beeswax from a local apiary. He estimates it would cost him $30,000 — a figure he calculated from having to pay $400 in required tests for each of the 80 or so different items he produces — to show that they are not toxic.
“I use beeswax,” Mr. Woods said. “The law was targeted at large toymakers using lead. There was no exclusion for benign products.”
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Maybe they don't know it yet, but these toymakers will definitely be Ron Paul supporters. There are a lot of Ron Paul supporters out there who don't yet know it. We need to reach out and reach them.
Here is Mr. Wood's website:
http://www.ogunquitwoodentoy.com/
He has beautiful toys, very reasonably priced. If we order, we could send him a Ron Paul brochure, or if online, send him a link.
Debbie
I mentioned this in one of the corporation threads from
a few weeks ago.
This bill is horrible, but it does require state attorney's general to enforce it. If any businesses are being harmed by this, they need to go after their state AG. If the AG's refuse to enforce it, then this law can safely be ignored.
If I were a manufacturer I would ignore this law and defend my business by all means necessary.
This sounds like good advice - thank you. I'm going to look up
this gentleman's website - I'd like to buy some of his beautiful toys.
Debbie
More proof of gov't bailing out the rich
Gov't always screws the little guy. I had a friend who made mattress, and because he bought must of his supplies from China was able to compete with the name brands. Then the gov't in their infinite wisdom decided to put tariffs on certain products from China to help so called domestic companies (their rich friends). What happened, my buddy who had a business for about 7 years, had his business slowly die. He had to file bankruptcy because he could no compete with the big boys anymore.
The Proud Profiteer
http://www.ProudProfiteer.com
The Proud Profiteer
http://www.ProudProfiteer.com
That's what regulations are for.
The reason corporations get so big in this country is because the government creates impediments to competition. Every single reg they ad makes it easier for the bigger companies than the smaller ones to compete.
-jcr
"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the child." -- Hugh Daniel
And mental midgets, that deny humanity, knock on your door.
These "license checkers" sent out by the fed/state gustapo act just that way. The small famers are and have been embattled over this tyranny and oppression too.
We will push em back.
They can't make a cat f@#k a dog. It's not in their nature.
So goes the american patriot. Work is part of life, even if it is just carving wood.
The super preditor beast blind rhino must be stopped.
Insanity is in direct relation to distance from nature. And that includes human nature.
People's of the world are pissed off to the bone marrow.
It's simple, you market it as a collectable and number them...
The Liberty a society retains is inversely proportional to the number of Lawyers in the Government.
The Liberty a society retains is inversely proportional to the number of Lawyers in the Government.
won't cut it.
The law applies to any item intended for anyone under 12 under any circumstances. Making it a collectible is irrelevant.
This law makes it illegal for libraries to have children's departments with untested books. I kid you not.