The Airbnb Industrial Revolution Benefits in Maine through an Emergency Housing Act.

Did The Legislature forget to regulate a sector- besides Airbnb?

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Laws are written by the people in political power, who are changing all the time and so the moving and transforming systemic whole is treated like disassociated bits and pieces. Politicians hire consultants to do reports and then ignore those reports because the politicians already knew what they wanted to do. Often the reports are just visual effects or an appeal to authority to hold up whenever the results match the foregone conclusions and so the trail of history embedded into the system lies hidden behind the curtain of perceptions. If there is a problem to solve, the new politicians, different from the old politicians, are not familiarized with the system of laws to assess or consider if the current problem might be caused by previous enactments, with the exception of those enactments that have engendered large public attention, or the individual who brings specialized skills to the job.

In the many years that I have been reading the Maine economic development…