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and a bunch of little ones - I could write a thousand page essay on each of these.
1. Equal Rights for all Americans -
2. Pharmaceutical pricing regulation - has got to happen if you want your parents, yourselves and your children to live as long as possible without becoming homeless.
3. Credit Card companies need harshest possible regulation Credit should be harder to get, not more expensive to get.
"Little" ones:
Dallas has commercial building height restrictions in the poorest areas of the city - which means no commercial development, and the ghetto and barrio will forever remain the ghetto and barrio.
Dallas has ridiculously inconsistent zoning laws: you can report real zoning issues until you are blue in the face, but if your dog is not on her leash between your front door and your car at the curb of your property they can write you a $1200 ticket for animal at large. If you put your bulk garbage out five days before the pickup instead of four, you can get a $250 ticket. These are people who are actually keeping the neighborhood clean who get punished.
If you don't have your garbage out 4 days before the pickup, they may tag your property as not requiring a pickup and then charge you for special pickup later. To order special pickup, you must sign the request 24 hours in advance during business hours at home, or they won't do the pickup, and you'll get another ticket.
I have gotten out of all of these tickets but the City Prosecutor, a Michelle Malkin type, is determined that she is going to hinge her career on successfully prosecuting pooper scooper cases, and has my number on speed dial. "Oh yes, we can give you a ticket for animal at large, even if the animal doesn't belong to you".
That recording got me out of a court date.
I hate stupidity in local government. That's my pet cause. People who do things just because it's the law without ever examining the intent of the law and applying discretionary enforcement. I absolutely despise authoritarianism in all its many forms, and especially when it's in your face via a petty beaurocrat.
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