NYC: Male and Female Haircuts Must Be Same Price

When will the insanity end? A barber gets fined $850 for charging $3 more for a woman's haircut, even though it takes considerably longer. This stupidity must be ended. 

We are regulated in every way in this country.  Everyday on our way to work, we are sure that we break laws or ordinances that we were not aware existed. How can one keep up on all the laws that your town, township, city, county, state, or country has enacted. If one started reading them every day, we would assume that you could not get anything else done. 

Even the legislators do not know what the laws say. Remember Nancy Pilosi, the former Speaker of the House, said of the healthcare bill that "we have to pass it to find out what's in it."  Huh, the authors and those who voted for it didn't know what it said. How many of your town council persons would say the same? We would hope not many but unfortunately, many probably would fail a test on the laws on which they voted.

One wonders if the city council of New York or its Mayor knew that women's haircuts and men's haircuts had to be priced the same. Doubtful!  

Conservative Tom

Is it Discrimination to Charge More for Woman's Haircut?

By Bobby Eberle May 2, 2012 1:01 pm

          

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We've heard about discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, orientation, and so and so on and so on. It seems every day there is a new group being "protected" against discrimination. But what about hair? Is it discrimination to charge more to cut and style a woman's hair? Apparently so as one barber in New York City is finding out.

This is the story of Leon Kogut who owns Leon's Fantasy Cut in Brooklyn. As reported by Todd Starnes on his FoxNews.com blog, Kogut has been "accused of violating the city's discrimination policy." Why? For charging more to cut a woman's hair than a man's. How much more? Three dollars.

"I'm here for 21 years and I've never heard of such a thing," said Leon Kogut, the owner of Leon's Fantasy Cut in Brooklyn. "The guy tells me this is discrimination of a woman."

Kogut, who is originally from the former Soviet Union, told Fox News he ran afoul of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. An inspector slapped the barber with three violations totaling $650 in fines.

Apparently, according to the Hair Cut Czar, it's ok to charge more based on hair length, but not style. Kogut said, "A woman's haircut requires a lot of skill. You have to style the hair, blow dry, use the mousse, the hairspray. It could take hours to get her hair cut."

Starnes also points out in his blog that the poor barber faced continued wrath from the inspector. Apparently, Kogut's cash register was just too darn old. That's right... since it didn't produce a receipt upon completion of a transaction, the nearly 100-year-old cash register was deemed in violation of some other insane law. Kogut was fined again.

Can you believe this? There is a law governing cash registers and hair styles? America is truly going over the big-government deep end. When will it stop?