NO. This isn’t a small group of politicians sitting in a room making these decisions. These types of laws benefit EVERYONE. When YOU get in an accident, and YOU can’t pay for the services - hospitals don’t just let you die. I end up paying for YOUR injuries through MY taxes. These laws have a much wider impact than just the targeted people you think they have. Almost every single safety law for homes and cars are lobbied by the insurance companies. They are THEE driving force behind them. And for the most part I’m for almost every one. I surely wouldn’t want to buy a home in FL that wasn’t built to hurricane standards. Do you think buying a home that has gas lighting is a good idea? How about a home who’s wiring is 16 gage aluminum on a 15amp circuit? (I’ve seen homes like that built in the 60’s). Gee - I wonder why there’s laws against that now.
Really? Why. Here in NH - Even Walmart sells them.
Really? Very few cities or states have that regulation. None around here.
And the driving force behind that is money. Decisions aren’t always made with the goal of the greater good in mind. They’re often made with the goal of greater money.
Because it’s against the law. A group of politicians in a room made the decision that in WA state stores can only sell cage-free eggs. Now I don’t care if the hens that lay the eggs I eat are cage-free or stuck on a rack in a factory, but I am categorically opposed to anything that makes it harder for anyone to buy food. The state absolutely failed in that regard.
The city I lived in in OR until 2 years ago enacted a ban on any gas appliances in new construction. WA is trying to push through a statewide ban on new gas stoves and furnaces but it’s stalled in the courts. And WA wants to require 100% EV sales by 2035 like CA does.
Now I don’t oppose electric heat pumps, EVs, and cage-free eggs, but is it really up to the state to decide these things for me?
Of course their goal is money. By NOT paying out MILLIONS every year because people DIED or were seriously injured is a good thing. I sure think so. And we as insurance owners pay lower premiums because the insurance companies aren’t paying out so much. Your premiums would easily be triple if many of these laws weren’t in effect.
Well, there are several factors to consider, in why government sometimes must step in:
Human being are inherently selfish. They tend to put their own needs first, partially out of primitive impulses of self-preservation.
Americans, in particular, while probably no more selfish than humans anywhere else on Earth by the way, have a strong predilection for not liking bring told what they can or cannot do, or have, or have taken away from them.
Ignorance (among subsets of Americans and of humans in general).
1, 2, and 3 are good reasons why government sometimes must act as ‘mother hen’ in certain situations.
If you didn’t learn history until your 30s, you should go back and have a discussion with your teachers. In Minnesota, tribes were always included in our history lessons. Gee in 1958 in fifth grade we put on a play the included some of us dressed as Sioux to tell the Minnesota history story. You clearly were short changed which might contribute to your anger now.
Somewhat similarly, our old neighborhood in Brooklyn had a large Norwegian population, and as a result, we kids in the local public elementary school had to wear Norwegian folk costumes, and perform Norwegian dances at school on May 17th (Norwegian Constitution Day).
This wasn’t really relevant to me or my friends, but we did learn quite a bit from those annual experiences.
Different culture in South Dakota. My fil was on the local school board and they forbid school dances. I think they finally relented to allow a prom but that was before my time. They’d have to drive 30 miles to the German community with dances.
Many–perhaps most–of us already knew the reality of Native Americans, Columbus, etc. For those who weren’t already aware of that info, I think that the point has been made, and that it is time to move ON to things of an automotive nature.
Obsessing on a totally non-automotive topic, and being combative about it, could possibly get you banned from this forum. While that is rare, it has happened.
I tipped the wait person pretty Good Friday oat the Olive Garden. Do they still share tips with the bus kids? Every night I’d get more pocket change as a pay off for clearing tables fast.
Yes, that is a good cause, but I am totally focused on the question of… Why do we drive on a parkway, but we park on a driveway? Now THAT is an issue worthy of bringing up continually, in multiple off-topic posts!
Maybe when you were a child, it was like that when I was a child… Now days, teachers reject papers written in Cursive because they cannot read them and I’ve heard teachers reply, “Yes, youse can…”
I have a friend whose son was in a Hampton, Virginia, High School, until he dropped out, but his last report card listed four “Ds” and one “F” and his Grade Point Average (GPA) was 3.4… My friend was furious with the way the school considered and assigned the GPA, He was told to was a “Wide” bell curve and it included GPAs over 4.0 for students who actually did very well on school.
And you might wonder why the United States has so many H-1B visas to find enough skilled workers…
One distinguished former professor at an Ivy League school said you really have to work at not getting an A. In other words you pretty much were given an A unless you really sloughed off. Parents paying $50-100,000 tuition expect a high gpa as well as employers that hire them. It’s a slow boat but I see some little bit of change.
My son has had a school provided Chromebook since first grade. They did spend some time writing and even learned cursive (which we taught at home two years before they covered it in school) but everything is pretty much completed on the Chromebook. The amount of physical writing on paper is minimal. Time marches on…
