Just like the “can’t charge extra for using a credit card” law. Prices went up and gas stations give a cash discount.
If you want to charge for credit card payments, the same fee has to apply to all cards you accept.
Perhaps Netflix is not _breaking_ a law, which itself may have been written by "dilettantes", but this action certainly disabuses us of the notion that Netflix has any intention to adhere to the spirit of the law, which was to reduce racial and gender-based salary gaps.
The only thing wrong with the current situation is, unfortunately, anyone naive enough to believe that this law was supposed to have the intended effect. Otherwise, it's functioning exactly as any sensible person would have predicted.
The credit card thing mostly isn't a law, it's part of the merchant agreements. There's a few states with a "no fees" law (which all allow cash discounts):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2021/04...
I get 3% back on gas purchases from my credit card.
Question: At what price per gallon does it stop making cents (heh) to buy with cash?
Hint: California hasn't had gas at that price for many years already.
No, Prop 65 was written by a lawyer for the Environmental Defense Fund and proposed and passed as an initiative measure, SB 1162 was written by Senator Monique Limon and adoptef by the State Legislature. Different people, different process.
