Crap and tax, examined » Cold Fury
If you decide to build a new home, it must meet new and specific energy requirements. If you decide to sell your existing home, a federal inspector must inspect your home, determine it’s energy rating, and if your home is found to be unacceptable then you must retrofit and make changes before you will be able to sell.
I’ll bet if somebody digs deep enough into this monstrosity, they’ll find some obscure passage that regulates farts as unmanaged sources of flammable gas.
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They’re crossing the line with stuff like this. People simply won’t follow it; you’re going to start getting a network of underground transactions and “black” money similar to what often happens in Spain, etc, as people say “screw it” and bypass taxes and onerous regulatory schemes.
What I think will happen is that inspector bribery will become a growth industry. Among others.
In many places - often in the South; frequently enough, though, in the highest-population-density areas regardless of North, South, East or West - it already is.
I had a builder’s license for many years in Michigan, and for awhile in North Carolina - and dealt with building/zoning people in both states.
It’ll just get a lot worse…