Showing posts with label legislation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legislation. Show all posts
Anti-Gun Activists Adopt Anti-Abortion Tactics
by A. Barton Hinkle. A dark, sinister game. Foes of abortion and foes of guns have a similar problem: The Supreme Court, which says government cannot ban either one outright. What to do? Increasingly, the two advocacy movements are resorting to a similar solution: targeted regulation. Abortion opponents started the trend and have it ... MOREProgressives’ Latest Plot to Take Power From the People and Give It to Legislators: Reign In The Initiative Process
by Steven Greenhut. The people are inconveniencing "our public servants." Few things have defined California's politics more than the three election reforms championed by the state's 23rd governor – the initiative, the referendum and the recall. Hiram Johnson's system of direct democracy, used early and often in California since 1911, ... MOREElliot Rodger And Gun Control's False Promise
by Jacob Sullum. The day after his 20-year-old son, Christopher, was shot down at
a deli in Isla Vista, California, Richard Martinez
blamed his death on "craven, irresponsible politicians and the
NRA." Gun control advocates quickly seized upon Martinez's remarks,
using his grief to obscure the illogic of their position. None of the items on the ... MOREKammi Foote: A Huge Blow To California Property Rights
Some are more equal than others. A barrage of new bills was introduced into the California Legislature recently including a bill that masks a huge blow to property rights under the guise of increased public protection. Assembly Bill 2206 by Assemblyman Gomez is almost identical to AB 2299 introduced in the 2011/2012 legislative session ... MORE
A Law So Stupid Even California Legislature Recognizes It
by Thomas Lifson. Politicians try to kill their dumb law. California’s state legislature is seeking to repeal an idiotic law that took effect January 1st. It turns out that some feel-good regulatory efforts generate enough blowback that they can actually be reversed. Stacy Finz reports in the San Francisco Chronicle: State lawmakers have passed a ... MORERamesh Ponnuru: Raising Minimum Wage Is Still A Bad Idea
A popular idea, just a bad one. Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, as President Barack Obama urged in his State of the Union address last month, is as popular an idea as ever. It’s also a worse idea than ever. Obama presented it as a way to help struggling families: “Americans
overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: When Eminent Domain Is Just Theft
Say you buy a car. Drive it around for five years, get plenty of use out of it. Then one day you decide you paid way too much. You really should have paid half what you did. Or even less. So you go back to the dealership and say the car is worth less now, and you want a refund. Think you’d get it? Precisely. Yet this is just the kind of stunt ... MOREPresident's ObamaCare Lies Were Essential To Passing Bill
Voters would have rejected it had they known truth. Over half of American voters regret that the Affordable Care Act passed, and nearly two-thirds say it never would have -- if we knew then what we know now. In addition, more than half think the health care law will ultimately be bad for the country, and that it’s more about the ... MOREMichael Lotfi: Indiana Moves To Nullify Healthcare Law
Obamacare is falling apart at the seams. The state legislatures of Oklahoma, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and now Indiana have all taken steps to nullify the federal healthcare law. Tenth Amendment Center national communications director Mike Maharrey said that this could create a formidable bloc, pulling the rug out from under ... MORE
Regulation Nation: 40,000 New Laws Take Effect In 2014
by Greg Toppo. If you're a pale 17-year-old in Illinois, get your indoor tanning sessions in now. Starting Wednesday, they're strictly forbidden. A new state law takes effect Jan. 1 that bans anyone under 18 from using tanning salons in the Land of Lincoln. Illinois becomes the sixth state to keep teens out of the facilities, part of a growing trend of ... MORE
High Court Hides From Online Retailers Tax Case
One government arm serves the other. Amazon.com Inc and other online retailers with no physical presence in New York State must go on collecting sales tax after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a legal challenge to the law that requires it. The court order means the New York law remains intact and the high court ... MOREBoston Herald: IRS Assault On Free Speech
Dictating legislation through regulation. Remember that huge flap earlier this year about how the Internal Revenue Service was targeting tea party and other conservative groups that had applied for tax exempt status — subjecting them to pages of questions and long delays simply for a reply? Well now the Obama administration has ... MOREProposal Bans Snacking, Smoking Behind The Wheel
Nannied in New Jersey. Drivers could possibly be pulled over for snacking, smoking or putting
on make-up behind the wheel under a bill that has been advanced in the
New Jersey Assembly. The proposed law would fine drivers found to “engage in any activity unrelated to the operation of a motor vehicle in a manner that that interferes ... MOREVIDEO: Changing Laws By Proclamation
The executive branch is not the legislative branch, unless it wants to be.
Another Insurance Mess Government Has Gotten Us Into
Kathleen Pender on the flood insurance snafu. A complex new federal insurance law is having so many unintended
consequences that some of its original sponsors and backers are now
trying to delay it. It's not the Affordable Care Act. It's the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. Its goal was to put the National Flood ... MOREJudson Phillips: Laws, Damn Laws And Regulations
Stop the dictatorship. There are laws, there are damn laws and then there are regulations. America is awash in laws, many of them bad. We are drowning in regulations, almost all of which are stupid, illogical and simply bad. How many laws are there? Well, it is tough to get an exact count. There are over three thousand criminal laws in the ... MORED.C. To Decriminalize Pot With Legalization On Horizon
from Fox News. The nation’s capital is poised to decriminalize marijuana -- with some activists pushing for the city to legalize, tax and regulating the drug as Colorado and Washington state have recently done. The Democrat-controlled City Council appears ready to approve a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of pot, ... MORE
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