Posted on 12/12/2010 11:50:05 AM PST by neverdem
In my high school “Humanities” class my very liberal teacher asked the class what law they would pass if they could pass only one.
Most of the kids gave the standard suck-up responses but when she got to me I replied, “If I could only pass one law it would be that for every new law passed four would have to be eliminated”.
My lefty teacher was shocked, “Why on earth would you do such a thing?!”
“Simple” I explained, “We already have too many useless laws on the books. Tons of them don’t make any sense now, even if they ever made sense to begin with.”
“So Congress would have to pick four laws - at random if they like - and eliminate them. In due time they would get to the point where they would actually have to think about the laws they were enacting.”
She flunked me...;-)
$100,000.00 * 0.08 = $8,000.00
LOL. I just read your post after posting my #21 ;-)
Exactly!
Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the Democrats
One nation, under too many laws..
Been saying that for years and I strongly believe being a member of Congress is at best a part time job. You get called in when there’s REAL problem like someone getting ready to attack us etc. Otherwise, sit on your ass and do NOTHING and America will once again prosper.
“Pedantry is unbecoming.”
That’s what I tell the IRS when I use the 0.35% rate on my income tax.
Awesome post!
My feeling is we are choking under the weight of one insane law after another, and then they have to be enforced with specialized agents, or the local cops have to do it. It is why I no longer truly feel we are living in the free country that our founders gave us.
This is one of the biggest problems we have and is never discussed. Also, there is the claim that “ignorance of the law” is no defense - well, I’d say its a damn good defense nowadays!
Damn! Jimmy Carter did say something that made sense once.
I think the extra % sign was a typo.
ping for later
Bryan24 should have left the percent sign out of his formula. He meant 8%. Which I believe is too low. Prolly more like 20%.
Merry Christmas
Thanks for the quote from Ayn Rand. Limited gov't being one of the primary aims of the Tea Party movement, I'd like the Tea Party movement to take up the issue of sunset laws and repealing a lot of the nonsense before we have to water the tree of liberty, IMHO.
This should be the Tea Party’s cup of tea. I haven’t read anything in this forum against the Tea Party movement, so I’m pinging all my lists for this OpEd about sunset laws and repealing a lot of the nonsense that Congress just ignores once it is passed as a law. Jimmy Carter had one good idea!
No wonder why the others sucked up.
bump for later read
Concur. I'm amazed that there is even this ONE thing that I agree with Jimmuh on, but he was right on this.
-ties in with my oft-stated comment that when I was a kid you often heard the phrase "it's a free country" and every now and then "there oughtta be a law"-- unfortunately , the second statement came to dominate---
One addendum I would putin, is that any repeal MUST be of the EXACT original bill or you would get crap like the extension of the current tax rates which seems to have turned into a porkfest.
Concur. I'm amazed that there is even this ONE thing that I agree with Jimmuh on, but he was right on this.
Stopped clocks and all that.
Unless, of course, they're immigration laws. Then it's just mean old Republicans that want to keep the poor minority "undocumented future citizens" from crossing the border to a better life that only America's Socialist party (DemonRats) can provide.
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