[78] in libertarians
Re: More Ballot Slogans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Tue Jul 12 16:37:13 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 16:28:38 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vernon Imrich's message [Re: More Ballot Slogans] as of Jul 12, 15:02
To: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich), libertarians@MIT.EDU
In your message [Re: More Ballot Slogans]
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| >Wait a minute... you mean there is NOW a mandatory seatbelt law in
| Fascichusetts? I thought we got rid of that in 1986! Did they bring
| it back or what?
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| They did. And the same people who opposed it last time are out fighting
| it again. (I guess the sponsors of this thing just won't give up.)
They don't need to give up because they have all the advantages.
It's a sleazy little algorithm:
1. Pass an obnoxious law at zero cost to yourself.
2. Watch the opposition spend lots of money and time to overturn the law.
3. If they succeed, go to 1.
If this is overturned the second time, I would recommend that pro-freedom
politicians do two things:
1. If campaigning against someone who voted FOR the seatbelt law, tell the
voters that the opponent's decision to support a law that was already
struck down by the voters once shows how out of touch that candidate is
with the people, and/or how much disregard he or she has for the wishes
of the voters.
2. Start a referendum to amend the constitution to add a clause that if
a law is overturned by referendum, it can't be re-enacted for some minimum
"cooling off" period.
Maybe (2) already exists. When was the law re-enacted?
- Kevin
