does anyone have a federal law that they would like to see passed?
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1. Marriage 1 man and 1 woman.\n\n2. Enforce immigration law.  Make it so that a woman cannot come to America illegally, have her baby, and that child becomes a citizen.  \n\n3. Pass the Fair Tax\n\n4. Repeal McCain/Finegold Campaign Finance Reform\n\n5. Make it a felony to publish knowingly leaked classified information.  Minimum sentence 20 years.\n\n6. NO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS
376129
Any way you slice it the government needs to pay for the services that people demand. I would support any modification of the tax code that would get the public at large to buy into the system. That means that the obvious corruption in the way federal money is spent and the way in which contracts are awarded has to be dealt with.  The budget process in Congress is hopelessly broken and needs to be reformed.  In short, a sales tax would be simpler and indeed would be a better system but it needs to be accompanied by other reforms.
1127557
Check out and support the best bill ever introduced in congress: The Fair Tax! HR 25 S 25\n\nIt will eliminate all other Federal taxes and replace it with a sales tax on new items and services.  I think it would be the best thing that has ever happened to our economy!  Check out the link!\n\nNo income tax, no deductions, no paperwork.
1008440
I would love to see that law.  (Heck, my whole family would love to see that law!)  Do you have a citation?  I have a feeling this is too good to be true.
18151
Good luck with that.  How do you differentiate between "this legislation is good for the US" and "This legislation is good for my buddy, Billy Bob" in an enforceable, consistent way, that doesn't just transfer all power to whoever decides what was intended as a favor and what wasn't?\n\nOf course, a step in the right direction would certainly be to make the federal tax code transparent and fair.  That helps eliminate (or at least illuminate) all the loopholes and exemptions and rebates for special interest groups.
890275
Honestly I thought that was already implied, but an amendment making it official would be a good step. However, the very people who would be affected by it or the ones who need to pass it as legislation, to that I say-----fat chance.
566393
In theory, I would support such a law, but how are they going to enforce it?  It would cost millions of dollars to try to enforce this law, but it would never work.  Stores aren't going to card people and run welfare verifications on them, and even if they did, people would find ways to circumvent the system.\n\nAlthough it might be a good idea, it is too impractical to implement in our society.
446204
In a ideal situation we should remove the laws that restrict posession by law abiding citizens.\n\nBut more importantly...\n\nENFORCE the laws we already have.
520416
I'd make it so that congress had to call a jury of 12 regular americans after the president signs a bill into law.  If all 12 americans agree that any one (or more) lines in the bill is unnecessary or unjust, then that part of the bill is invalidated and the rest goes into law.\n\nThink about how many unnecessary spending projects and corporate subsidies, and little rules that hurt consumers would be purged from our laws!  It would be awesome.
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I am somewhat hopeful that america will wakeup. But we are on a slippery slope \n\nThe most direct way to authorize preventive law enforcement is to redefine liability broadly so that authorities can sweep up large numbers of people without having to prove that individuals have engaged in specific harmful conduct. In our history, this has been accomplished in two principal ways—by targeting people for what they say before they act and for their associations. \n\nFrom WWI to the japanese internments in WWII , mccarththyism, vietnam era fbi files on anyone who opposed the war, we have a history of allowing the government to restrict our civil liberties and interfere with protected free speech. Each time we recover to relaize the dangers , restrict the governments abilities anfd each time we forget and let history repeat itself. Perhaps if the midterm elections result in a republican loss of the House or Senate, we will be able this time to nip it in the bud. The longer that Bush & Co. remain in power, the more damage will be done.\n\nIn the immortal words of Ben Franklin - THOSE WILLING TO GIVE UP FREEDOMS FOR SECURITY WILL HAVE NEITHER.
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which law? the legislative body makes laws and enacts them. is there a particular one you are wondering about?
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Federal laws regarding that behaviour can be found here!
765141
and there be a law??????????????????
76831
I would ask your local legislator.
614154
Write your Congressman/woman and get some help!
179886
The Constitution gives congress the power to make laws. States can also pass laws specific to there jurisdiction as long as the state law does not violate federal law. In cases where there is no federal law, states are free to come up with their own. An example that has had a lot of attention in recent years is the legalization of marijuana. Some states have past laws to make it legal but the federal government still says its a crime to possess it. If you live in a state where marijuana has been legalized, the federal government could still arrest you for violating federal law.
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No.  If they were going to do the right thing, they would allow law enforcement to enforce the laws already on the books.  This is an election year, so the issue once again comes up.