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If you were King for the day and could change one Law and only one Law:?
Assumptions:
Someone died and made you King for the day.
Congress and the Whitehouse would acquiesce to your desire for one change to the law
You could make the change in any law but it would not revert back later unless someone who was king at another time wanted to revert it.
What would it be – try to give concrete examples rather than stupid stuff.
This is for thinking about and not for flapping your gums – bonus points for references and cool quotes that are cited.
Good answers coming in
18 Answers
- mrscmmckimLv 71 decade ago
As "Queen" for a day, I would make rape a death penalty crime. The repeat rate for sexual assault is 9 out of 10! The damage done to the victim is irreversible. The proof would have to be iron clad, including DNA. I would make this a world wide conviction. Assuming I would have that kind of power...I would sprinkle in a little dusting of coercion to "make" people "want" to follow the law.
PS...grizzly...you need to check your facts
PSS boldtruth...LOL
- ShadowCatLv 61 decade ago
If that were at all possible, it would be a toss up between personal Federal and state income taxes never progressing to over 8% of one's income OR putting inmates to work to pay back their debts to society OR getting rid of amnesty for Illegal aliens Or restructure NEA to TEACH not INDOCTRINATE THEIR STUDENTS!
Source(s): Web Search: NAMBLA NEA numbersusa.com - 1 decade ago
YOU can put anything YOU want to into YOUR body. No government, in any jurisdiction, has any say over what you ingest, inhale, or inject.
Individual freedom.
EDIT: I'm with Mk Ultra, on the (not)Federal (no)Reserve. But not because he's controlling my mind.
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- 1 decade ago
I would legalize drugs and then tax the hell out of those drugs that are sold. I would then implement federal tax cuts for all income levels. The percentage of federal tax cuts would depend on how much revenue we could generate off of the drug taxes.
- 1 decade ago
Honestly, I would put low risk to medium risk prisoners to work like picking the fruits/veggies, mowing grass, some construction work etc...for no pay or very low pay to pay their debt back to society or if they owe a family money for a fatal car accident. It would give them work ethics and provide government jobs to qualified people, like babysitters with badges.
- 1 decade ago
I would issue an edict that the trade deficit is now illegal we have to export as much as we import (a balance) this would create jobs to manufacture the things the day before we got from china.
This would apply to Wal-Mart as well.
- slipperLv 51 decade ago
I would make it law for all men to recognize women as equals no matter what the race or colour or creed.
That would then make me the Queen for the day...wouldn't it?
- shortyLv 61 decade ago
In light of what happened at VT I would change the law about gun control, the only people that could legally own a gun would be law enforcement, farmers and valid hunters. The penalty for being caught with a gun would be a felony and there would be an automatic sentence of at least 5 years and more if you get caught more then once.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Legalize marijuana.
The tax revenues alone would be staggering. It would go far in clearing the national deficit.
Free the Weed!
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