Taking on Musk, New York Considers Move to Close Tesla Dealerships
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Democrats should be above this in my opinion.
US Government targeting businesses due to party affiliation is crazy.
We're in an election cycle in Canada (I am citizen of both countries) and the amount of signs being destroyed is much higher then I've ever seen.
What's being proposed here is to revoke an exemption, so Tesla has to follow the same rules as other car manufacturers. That's not in the same class. An exception from the law requires continuing justification IMO. The state can IMO say "okay, our reasons were A, B and C, that doesn't apply any more" and if Tesla wants to continue to be treated specially, it has to argue for that.
(But IMO the state has a moral duty to make the transition palatable. Reasonable warning time etc.)
"Under her plan, the licenses could be redistributed to rival electric-vehicle manufacturers like Rivian, Lucid and the Volkswagen affiliate Scout Motors, which also employ a direct-to-consumer sales approach." This is exactly what Trump is doing.
Basically no special license for Tesla, but special license for others. I'm either special license for all or special license for none.
We're better than this.
"Elon Musk’s alliance with President Trump has prompted Democratic lawmakers to propose stripping Tesla of its ability to sell its cars directly to consumers."
Whatever they are doing, they are doing it for the wrong reasons. For Trump-like reasons.
That should be enough for all we decent people to have a problem with it.
So its basically what Trump is doing, but the other way. I'm okay if they strip Tesla's special treatment or give the same to the other EV makes, but not both.
I'd prefer to stay aligned with politicians who don't "go low", but I can also see the benefit of forcing our far-Right extremist party have to occasionally eat some of what they shovel out every day. The mere hint of consequences for the decades of bad faith from the Republican party makes them squeal that they're being oppressed. If they're going to complain about unfair treatment constantly, is it so wrong to make them actually endure some?
I'm a little ashamed, but all of my sympathy for Musk and MAGA has been spent. There are people who are actively being harmed by this administration that are far more worthy of our concern.