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05-19-08, 05:26 PM
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Current Mood: | Common sense laws that you think should exist List the laws that you think should exist, but that don't now either because they're impractical, unconstitutional, or simply haven't been proposed. The law doesn't necessarily have to be implementable, but should simply address an issue that you think needs to be addressed.
I'll start:
-It should be illegal to buy booze at liquor stores with change.
-Everyone convicted of a DWI should have an Interlock breathalyzer thing installed in their car.
-Sugar tariffs and corn subsidies should be ended.
-The federal government should just go ahead and use eminent domain to condemn several sites across the country to store nuclear waste and build facilities that are almost comically huge and shielded so as to assuage the neighbors' fears of contamination.
-Scratch-off or other completely chance-based lotteries should be banned everywhere except for casinos. Yea, I know people love these, but it's so blatantly a tax on the poor and uneducated that it's completely counterproductive to the goals of our social programs.
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05-19-08, 05:59 PM
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Current Mood: | Re: Common sense laws that you think should exist If the leaves from a neighbor's trees fall in your yard, your neighbor should have to rake them.
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05-19-08, 06:32 PM
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Current Mood: | Re: Common sense laws that you think should exist 1. Low point beer should be outlawed.
2. Marijuana should be decriminalized.
3. Women with 3 and a half feet of flat bum, pregnant, and no breasts should be banned from topless dancing. (this one should fall under the category of obscenity laws).
4. Personal property taxes should be eliminated on vehicles under 40k.
Thats the first few that come to mind.
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05-19-08, 08:00 PM
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Current Mood: | Re: Common sense laws that you think should exist No one should have a gun if they can't hit the broad side of a barn with it.
No text-messaging while driving.
If you have a gassy tummy, stay out of theatres.
Internet predators should not be allowed to have computers or Internet access.
Hmm. I'll think of more later.
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05-19-08, 08:52 PM
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Lean: Conservative Gender:  | Re: Common sense laws that you think should exist 1) Every proposed law must include a citation of the Constitutional clause that empowers government to engage in or order the action of said law.
2) Spinning rims / Dubbs, 500+ watt car stereos, big flat screen TV's shall only be sold after the purchaser has produced proof of comprehensive health insurance for themselves and any dependents.
3) Since I am compelled to piss in a cup to earn the money the government confiscates, any person applying to receive taxpayer money must piss in a cup to get each check. |
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05-20-08, 01:40 AM
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Current Mood: | Re: Common sense laws that you think should exist KANDAHAR'S UNIVERSAL FREE TRADE LAW
A) The federal government, nor any state, may enact any barrier to trade against a foreign state, with the following exceptions.
1. The federal government may ban the export of items with a common military use or terrorist use.
2. The federal government and state governments may ban the import of items that do not meet the quality control guidelines that apply to their domestic counterparts.
3. The federal government may levy sanctions against specific foreign institutions suspected of laundering money, counterfeiting money, or financing enemies of the United States.
B) All presently existing barriers to trade, that do not qualify among the exceptions listed above, are hereby repealed.
C) All agricultural subsidies are hereby repealed.
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Current Mood: | Re: Common sense laws that you think should exist - Drugs which are incapable of giving you an overdose should be legalized.
- People should take a small political quiz before voting.
- The morbidly obese should be denied any kind of free health care.
- If you've been in this country for 10 years or more and still can't speak an understandable form of English, then you should be deported/forced to take English classes.
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