On: The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor

[yummyfajitas]

I think if they do regulate it, they should have a good reason for it.

All the reasons cited in this thread seem pretty bad. I say they are bad because when you apply the same reasons to regulating anything other than AirBnB, suddenly they don't seem like good reasons at all.

[someguydave → yummyfajitas]

>they should have a good reason for it.

The Supreme Court says otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review

In order to justify the New Deal the Court lowered its standard for state infringement of liberty to: "You just need any reason for this law, it doesn't have to be a good one"

[dwaltrip → yummyfajitas]

I just responded to one of your examples elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13680648