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Laws criminalizing blackmail make no logical sense.
(I do not mean EXTORTION, or the threat to do ILLEGAL harm to another for personal gain.)
Blackmail is the threat to do something that is otherwise LEGAL, like expose an illicit affair, a criminal or shameful act, etc. unless the person being blackmailed meets a requirement, usually financial.
The fundamental unreasonableness of this law is vividly exposed when one considers that THREATENING the "illegal act" of BLACKMAIL, is not itself a crime!
Also, laws against incest are clearly outdated and probably ineffective as well.
online poker should be legal. If I want to play for real money online then let me, I though this was a free country. Ridiculous.
Marijuana obviously needs to be legal. The fact that Obama just said it's less dangerous than alcohol in an interview yet won't move on it, and Biden said they aren't going to take any action, is just ridiculous. It's a schedule 1 substance which requires it to have no medicinal value, yet medicinal marijuana is legal in 20-something states and widely known to have benefits. I swear politicians think citizens are absolutely brain dead, it's downright insulting.
The NFA needs to go away. Making me pay 200$ for a tax stamp and go through insane background checks and wait 15 months in order to suppress my firearm so that it doesn't permanently damage my hearing in a self defense situation and so it doesn't bother my neighbors when I want to shoot on my land...... are you kidding?! suppressing your firearm is just a common courtesy, it doesn't make them "silent" at all, just bearable. short barreled rifles are lumped in there too, yeah like a few inches of barrel is so horrible that citizens couldn't possibly handle it and must go to ridiculous measures to be allowed the privilege of having a 12 inch barrel instead of a 16 inch. Again, they must be absolutely stump dumb to implement this stuff and keep it around. If you can buy a gun legally you should be able to buy a suppressor legally in the same manner, its just an accessory.
Taxes should go. You should not be required to pay high property taxes, there should be no income tax and most taxes should be banned. Property taxes should be only for the costs of the county to administer land deeds and property surveys and property protection like police and fire.
No taxpayer should have to provide the free rehab and free hospitalization of drug addicts -- if one chooses to become addicted, it should be on his or her own dime.
I think prostitution should be regulated. It's adults doing something that's more natural than any drug out there. I think alcohol should be made illegal as I believe it's one of the most destructive drugs in existence, we've just been conditioned to accept it.
Also, what's with INFINITE TAXATION? Not sure that's a term but that's what I call it.
Example: You buy a car you pay tax. You sell the car they pay the tax again. This is repeated infinitely on the car until it is in the crusher. That's just WRONG! An item should only be able to be taxed one time when it is sold new. Period. There's no excuse besides greed why an item should be taxed twice. Think about it.
Careful that has been done in Canada, and then we started smuggling to their side, because of excessive taxes.
Well set a balance.
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