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Common sense laws that you think should exist

RightinNYC

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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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If the leaves from a neighbor's trees fall in your yard, your neighbor should have to rake them.
 
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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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.
Purrs,
Pookie
 
Neither liberals nor conservatives should be allowed to procreate.
 
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.
 
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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- 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.
 
Liberals should not be allowed to reciprocate?
God, what did I do here? What did I do wrong here?

Pookie
 
Politicians should not be able to vote on laws that pertain to subjects they don't have a clue about. Also, judges should have some knowledge about technology when ruling on technical cases. Lets call it the "Steven's system of tubes" law.

Minors who demonstrate they are more mature and thoughtful then the average adult should be able to get the full rights of an adult.
 

Me likey #1. A lot.
 
No mens restroom shall have only 2 urinals. There will either be only one, or there will be 3 or more, so that we can space ourselves out.
 
1. Children under four will not be allowed to enter theaters, nice restaurants or planes. In fact, they won't be allowed to leave the home at all.

2. People may no longer use coupons at supermarkets, thereby holding up everybody in line. Also they will not be allowed to pay by check. If they have a problem with anything whatsoever, they must leave the register immediately to talk to the manager, thereby allowing the line of people to move forward. If you have any item that needs a price check, you lose your place in line instantly.

3. People are no longer permitted to use the freeways as an outlet for their aggression.
 
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1. Decriminalize selling something that is perfectly legal to give away.

2. Decriminalize marijuana.

3. Outlaw poison ivy, poison sumack, and poison oak.

4. All products with an American flag on them or actually being a flag must be made in America.

5. Mandatory drug tests for all representatives.

6. Term limits.

7. Abolish IRS. National Lottery to pay for healthcare. Enact national sales tax.

8. Amnesty for women that are in oppressive cultures. The men from those countries will realize that sheep aren't as fun as they thought. Let's use the power of the vag.

9. It will be legal to commit battery upon someone who sat right in front of you in an empty theater.

10. Enact a system for a vote of "no confidence" for the Presidency.
 
WI Crippler said:
No mens restroom shall have only 2 urinals. There will either be only one, or there will be 3 or more, so that we can space ourselves out.
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Outlaw cheap toilet paper! :mrgreen:
 
Rev. said:
If the leaves from a neighbor's trees fall in your yard, your neighbor should have to rake them.
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Awesome.

SouthernDemocrat said:
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.
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These both sound stellar.

You really have to pay property tax on cars? Wtf is a property tax anyways?

Kandahar said:
KANDAHAR'S UNIVERSAL FREE TRADE LAW
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Good stuff

rathi said:
Politicians should not be able to vote on laws that pertain to subjects they don't have a clue about. Also, judges should have some knowledge about technology when ruling on technical cases. Lets call it the "Steven's system of tubes" law.
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Perfect. This is a huge pet peeve of mine. There's literally nothing more frustrating than trying to read a court decision where some 80 year old judge is talking about how "Plaintiff's internet protocol address was electronic-mailed by defendant's server megabytes."

WI Crippler said:
No mens restroom shall have only 2 urinals. There will either be only one, or there will be 3 or more, so that we can space ourselves out.
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So true.

independent_thinker2002 said:
1. Decriminalize selling something that is perfectly legal to give away.
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Did you have blood/kidneys/etc. in mind with this or something else altogether?


These are all fantastic.
 
WI Crippler said:
No mens restroom shall have only 2 urinals. There will either be only one, or there will be 3 or more, so that we can space ourselves out.
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you know this is like the third time you've voiced urinal proximity issues.

it really doesn't bother most guys...
 
RightinNYC said:
Awesome.
These both sound stellar.

You really have to pay property tax on cars? Wtf is a property tax anyways?
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Yes, here you have to pay personal property taxes on a vehicle. Until your vehicle is so old and worn out that its practically worthless, you are out about 300 or more every year in personal property taxes to license it.
 
A constitutional amendment banning alimony.

If you are done screwing him, you are done spending his money.
 
1. Writing a check in a checkout line. If they do, they need to pay each person in line a fine.

2. Returns/exchanges in checkout lines are not allowed if the time/cost it takes to do them is less than the product/difference.
you're taking 10 minutes of 5 peoples time for 20 cents? Come here, let me $)()$%)

3. Rubber necking - illegal

4. opinion rather than expertise-driven political pundits - illegal

5. Lying while not under oath.

-Mach
 
1. Legalize Marijuana and all Marijuana products.

2. Outlaw Bicycles on any road with a speed limit of 35 mph or greater.

3. Require any building over 20,000 square feet that serves the public to have a "Smoking Section".

4. Ban the sale of Alcohol, a drug that kills more Americans and causes more grief than all other drugs combined.

5. Give equal free air time to political candidates.

6. Lay out restrictions and specific criteria that must be met by an "enemy" before we can Invade.

7. The right to medical treatment and medicine.

8. Separate Lobbyists and Corporations from Washington.
 
All politicians that try to censer video games will be forced to go through a lengthy class explaining the things that brought about the "Comics Code Authority" and nearly destroyed an entire medium of entertainment.

Jack Thompson will be stripped of his law liscense and be stuck in a small room while being forced to play GTA4 for the rest of this days.
 

Seconded!

Sorry for tangent...

You know all that game from their complete ignorance on what video games are, and who enjoys them. They heard game and thought "children". I hear "game" and think "game".

USATODAY.com - Survey: Video gamers getting older, heading online
Average gamer age 29.
Average game buyer age: 36
Men: 59%

What's next, banning phones because people say naughty things over them?

-Mach
 
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