There was an FTC law for exactly this during Biden but I'm guessing nothing ever came of it. Basically, cancelling had to be as easy as signing up.

FTC not FCC

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring

If you list these by gdp per capita, American cities take up like 25 out of the top 30 spots. That's not the only thing that goes into it surely, but as a quick baseline, that's kind of impressive in its own way

It is pretty wild how different laws are around the country, make a wrong turn and you can suddenly be committing a felony for something that was 100% legal on the other side of the border.

I'm from Pennsylvania, right next door to us in New Jersey. There was one story a couple years ago about a woman in Philly who made a wrong turn, crossed the bridge into NJ, and while trying to find somewhere to turn around and go back home, she got pulled over for some minor traffic violation or something.

But the catch is that she was carrying a gun. She was 100% legal in PA, had her carry permit on her, but PA and NJ gun laws are very different and NJ doesn't recognize a PA license to carry. So she ended spending like a month in jail and was facing I think 3 years in prison all because of a wrong turn.

I've made that same kind of wrong turn before and all it's cost me was a few minutes of my time and a couple bucks in tolls.

And it's not just guns, we have a patchwork of all kinds of different stupid laws, marijuana for example.

This city is singularly populous among others in the US. I mean we’re packed in here pretty tight.

On top of that, the city’s mayoral office wields quite a bit more implicit power than the runners up.

Which is why historically NYC mayors have so often been bought to mostly sit on their hands. Because one activist mayor in NYC can do more for more people than most governors.

It'd be ideal if really big states - like Cali and all of New York - did it. It might influence companies to have to adjust everywhere.

Because California is influential in such areas is the real cause of so much California Derangement Syndrome among conservatives, by the way.

not just the US. Companies the world over are hostile to their customers.

Oh noes! It is the SOCIALIZMZ!!!1111ONE

Have you ever read The Shining? Shit's important, yo.

My mom taught me boiler management when I was ~12 years old...

It is a government. A municipal government. A city has its own elected officials, laws and enforcement processes.

In the US a city is a government of a municipality. Every city has a governing body that levies taxes, plans infrastructure, pays emergency services, handles code requirements and enforcement, and can pass laws. For example, many cities have a ban in place on burning trash. That ban is enforced by the city law enforcement and applies within city limits. Another example is in Colorado when weed was leagalized by the state several cities made it illegal to open a recreational dispensery in city limits, so anyone wanting to tap into that customer base had to set up their opperation in the surrounding county (county is usually a large square of land that includes cities under it and has less regulation than the city, so burning trash is legal in most counties and anyone living outside the city, but in the county may do so) counties have Sheriffs who enforce the law and can have various non-city entities that do things like run a fire department.

Its all kinda complicated but baisically you have the following governments in the United States: Federal Government (laws for the whole country) -> State Government (laws for the state, baisically a small country, they do actually have their own militaries tax collectors etc...) -> County Government (a large portion of each state that often includes several cities handles mostly crime that happens outside cities, infrastructure, and fire regulations but can do more depending on the state. I think a few states have Bouroughs or some other name for these entities, but same idea) -> City Governments (laws for the city, zoning, sales tax in the city [on top of the state sales tax] law enforcement in city limits, and a bunch of other stuff)

There are exceptions and edge cases like municipal governments that aren't cities exactly and other odds and ends. Which makes law in the US complicated, for example you could get in trouble for having a knife that's legal one town over, but you visited a friend in a city where it's illegal. Lots of other odds and ends, like reporting purchases made out of state so you can pay your states sales tax on that etc...

Welcome to the US where we have cities, counties, water districts, air districts, school districts, power districts, transit districts, unincorporated areas, and reservations.

They can all share area, all work differently, and are sometimes adversarial.

If you don't like getting scammed just don't buy from them FREE MARKET BABYYYY - some chud probably

Federal law states that you have to allow people to cancel their subscription the same way as they signed up. But some state's decided that they would pass laws giving exception to gyms.

Want to guess which party runs those States?