Posted on 12/18/2007 3:20:17 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
How big of you to call me names and run the heck away from my argument.
hahaha, Reagan signed a balanced Federal budget which year of his adminitration?
I think that all levels of government should be held to the same standard. Infringing on the rights of others is not acceptable, just because it was done by a local or state government. I do know of the legal restrictions that make it difficult to use zoning restrictions, however, I do know that here in Vegas the law is 1500 yeards from a school, nearly a mile away. This, combined with picketing and other measures by concerned citizens do most likely end the dreaded strip club problem.
Government isn’t there to assuage your sense of moral outrage, it’s there to protect rights. There are ways to deal with strip clubs without the coercive power of the state. The problem is that people don’t care enough to be down there picketing or doing anything that takes more effort than complaining to the Masters of the Universe, aka the State.
The property owner. (Unless you prefer a system where private property is abolished.)
You say I think that all levels of government should be held to the same standard.
Yet the U.S. Constitution states: Amendment 10: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
This made me laugh my arse off, thanks: I do know that here in Vegas the law is 1500 yeards from a school, nearly a mile away. This, combined with picketing and other measures by concerned citizens do most likely end the dreaded strip club problem.
How well did this strategy work in Las Vegas?
In Texas that's about a week or two. We like our nudie bars as long as they are not too close to a church mind you.
So no government regulation would therefore be acceptable to you for any business? Property owners should be free to do whatever they please with their land without any restrictions what-so-ever? No zoning laws should therefore exist in America? Can’t have the people of a State placing any restrictions on property use of any kind in your America.
Well, obviously Vegas doesn’t care about strip clubs in the city, people just don’t want them across the street from schools. Were the population of a town so inclined, they could use a law like that combined with picketing to drive the strip clubs out of business, all without setting dangerous precedents infringing upon property rights. Vegas does not have a population that is so inclined.
I never said that the Constitution held all governments to the same standard. All governments should be held to the same standard by their people though, doesn’t matter if it’s Texas’s, Iowa’s, or Canada. I am not raising Constitutional issues here though, so have a good laugh over something I never said.
LOL
Yeah, I understand. It could be embarrassing to find yourself sitting next to the pastor.
Does the law specify that the fee be paid in sweaty, crumpled dollar bills?
I think in 2 bit quarters, Polonius!
To paraphrase someone else who posted on this thread....liberals and semi-socialists (only when it’s something they don’t like) posing as conservatives on FR are lower than street hookers.
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