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A new kind of servitude
MSN/Toqueville ^ | Today | Mixed

Posted on 08/08/2012 3:48:27 PM PDT by jessduntno

The left proves itself to be dangerous;

msnbc.com staff and news service reports updated 12/31/2011 10:12:54 AM ET

About 40,000 state laws taking effect at the start of the new year will change rules about getting abortions in New Hampshire, learning about gays and lesbians in California, getting jobs in Alabama and even driving golf carts in Georgia.

Several federal rules change with the new year, too, including a Social Security increase amounting to $450 a year for the average recipients and stiff fines up to $2,700 per offense for truckers and bus drivers caught using hand-held cellphones while driving.

NBC News, the National Conference of State Legislatures, The Associated Press, and other organizations tracked the changes and offered their views on the highlights. Many laws reflect the nation's concerns over immigration, the cost of government and the best way to protect and benefit young people, including regulations on sports concussions.

Eight states will raise the minimum wage, NBC News reported. They include Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Colorado, Ohio, Vermont and Florida, NBC News said. San Francisco will become the first city to raise its minimum wage above $10 per hour. The new $10.24 minimum is nearly $3 above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, set in 2009.

Jan. 1 is the effective date in many states for laws passed during this year's legislative sessions. In others, laws take effect July 1, or 90 days after passage.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


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‎"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
1 posted on 08/08/2012 3:48:31 PM PDT by jessduntno
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To: jessduntno
About 40,000 state laws taking effect at the start of the new year will change rules about getting abortions in New Hampshire,...

40,000???

Is one of those laws a law stating that one must know and memorize all these 39,999 new laws?

Nobody can go through life without breaking laws.

2 posted on 08/08/2012 4:13:04 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS

“Nobody can go through life without breaking laws.”

That’s the plan. Create enough laws and you will create a nation of lawbreakers susceptible to your threats.


3 posted on 08/08/2012 4:19:46 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Racism is not dead...it is on life support - kept alive by politicians..." - Thomas Sowell)
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To: EGPWS

“We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.”

He was a walking quote machine.


4 posted on 08/08/2012 4:21:27 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Racism is not dead...it is on life support - kept alive by politicians..." - Thomas Sowell)
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To: EGPWS; jessduntno

Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with. (’Atlas Shrugged’ 1957)


5 posted on 08/08/2012 4:42:13 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1297 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: jessduntno
Lincoln freed Eric Holder's people from the white devil.

Obama enslaved the white devil to Eric Holder's people.

6 posted on 08/08/2012 5:00:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the collectivists.)
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To: jessduntno

“”Create enough laws and you will create a nation of lawbreakers susceptible to your threats.””

Wrote this down from a book I just read but I didn’t note the book or author:

“”The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.””


7 posted on 08/08/2012 5:44:39 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

“”The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.””

John Lescroart, A Plague of Secrets


8 posted on 08/08/2012 6:08:52 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Racism is not dead...it is on life support - kept alive by politicians..." - Thomas Sowell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
LBJ enslaved Holders people to Holders people.


We pay them to procreate/own their own children.

And we wonder why their society is so __ed up?


The left is truly sick.

9 posted on 08/08/2012 6:16:01 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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