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This should be the day when every governmental body, from the smallest town council to the mighty federal government, is required to identify & repeal at least one (or maybe 1% of) useless/harmful law from it’s books.
Governments could find the laws themselves, or (even better) ask the effected citizenry to suggest & vote on the laws during the year.Report
But we need those spittoon placement laws! For the children! If it saves even one life!Report
Prohibition by Frank P. Adams:
Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can’t stop what it’s meant to stop.
We like it.
It’s left a trail of graft and slime,
It won’t prohibit worth a dime,
It’s filled our land with vice and crime.
Nevertheless, we’re for it.Report
Sad but true. Even when it was clear that Prohibition was a tremendous failure, it still was supported by the majority of Americans like the war on drurgs. The more things change, the more they remain the same.Report
Do you know his most famous piece of verse?Report
The actual repeal of Prohibition wasn’t that big of a celebration. The photos of happy drinkers that are used to show the end of Prohibition are actually celebrating a law that allowed the drinking of beer and light wines after FDR was inaugerating.
The Drys attempted to defeat the beer law but were silenced by all the Wets in Congress chanting “Vote, vote, vote. We want beer.” Best end of debate in Congress ever.Report
Indeed it would be a new birth of freedom if all the “No shooting sperm whales from your Conestoga on Sunday in Nebraska” type laws were repealed.Report
At the very least, such an annual event could foster a greater public awareness of the laws governing our daily lives & bring to the forefront the existence of bad laws.Report
I’d settle for congress actually reading bills they will vote on rather than telling folks that they must vote on before you can know what is in it a la Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare. Of course if they read Obamacare they would have know Obama was lying about it.Report
Why do you hate sperm whales?Report
To God, every one is sacred.Report
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Even Prince Charles?Report