Posted on 04/20/2005 4:50:23 PM PDT by TaxRelief
I am absolutely in favor of abolishing all full-time legislatures, and would favor something like two 30-day sessions per year.
Anything more, especially full-time parasites, just encourages them to sit around meeting with lobbyists and cooking up new laws, worthwhile or not.
Send their butts home for 80% of the year, forcing them to find something useful to do with their lives and exposing them to the fallout of their governmental idiocy firsthand.
I think they should be in session for only 2 weeks per year. And they should have to read every word of every bill before voting on it.
The law that is being modified is the existing law that fixes penalties for running the school bus stop sign. This must be differentiated in the law from static signs because of sleazy lowlifes who will argue that the stop sign on a bus is not the regulation size, shape, etc. listed in other statues (see the point about bus lettering in the article).
So your point is stupid. This is the law that makes a school bus' lights and signs the equivalent of a stop sign. The only change is to the charge for running it...
"Laws can deter dangerous actions, and that's not anti-conservative."
Punishment for breaking laws deters action. The laws themselves hold no weight. Alter the punishment for the existing law rather than creating new legislation that can have buried unrelated amendments donkey-tailed into the last 150+ pages of the bill...
There are already laws on the books to cover this situation in the article. Use those instead.
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