Laws about how many cars you are allowed to have on your property make absolutely no sense to me.
If you have overnite parking you have dudes selling cars on the street, homeless people sleeping there, and people with non-operating junk heaps storing them there. All of which means the other residents and their guests can’t find a palce to park. This answers BigT to a point also- but dudes really do run car repair or even car sales out of their home. There are also hoarders with a dozen non running junk heaps, which just looks bad.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act. , in particular, Section 7.
The SAA is iconic as TR’s big stick for breaking up corporations and increasing competition. It seemed to do that for a while but what was the result? Take oil for example. Instead of the politically untenable Standard Oil monopoly, we have the energy oligarchy whose sole competitive concern is how best to corner the world oil market. And if it takes a war or two to do it, so be it.
SAA was poison-pilled by Section 7 as evidenced by the latest SCOTUS ruling on the subject of corporate personhood.
The entire SAA is obsolete, anyway. Who needs to form trusts when a corporation is just a guy with lots of money and it’s legal to buy votes?
This got so bad in one block on the main drag here that the county posted “no selling” signs.
From the Florida Statutes:
I’ve had overnight non-permit parking on every street I’ve lived on and none of those things have happened. 
I’m not an anti-tax nut, but I really hate two types of taxes:
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personal property tax
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Income tax on tax refunds.
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Not every state has the first. Kansas didn’t for cars, but I moved to Missouri and it was so bewildering to me to start getting bills in the mail for hundreds of dollars in outstanding taxes. I bought the car. It’s mine. I’m not selling it, I’m not leasing it, I’m not trading it. It’s mine. I own it. The only commercial actions I do (license it, pay tolls, buy gas) I’m already paying taxes on. What the heck gives the government the right to say they get a cut of something merely because I possess it? I possess lawn furniture too. It’s just sitting there minding its own business. Want to tax that? I have money in a savings account. It’s the same money as last year. Want to tax that? The suit I’m wearing is pretty expensive. Maybe you can go through my closet and pick out 10% of my clothing I should donate back to the government each year.
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So I get a paycheck every two weeks. It takes out money for Federal Taxes and State taxes and city taxes. Bi-weekly, the government gets its cut in three places. And at the end of the year I’ve paid all there is to pay and total it all up I’ve usually paid too much. So I get a refund! Bonus! Except it’s not really a “bonus” because this is money that already got taxed and the government deemed it to be excessive for what I earned so they gave it back to me. They sat on it for up to a year getting interest that was rightfully mine to earn, but at least they gave it back to me. And then they tax me on my refund the next year? What the hell is that all about? What a slap in the face. It’s my money. You gave it back. It’s already been taxed! Don’t play numerical shenanigans saying that I “earned” it in the next FY. Just give me my damn money. 100% of it.
Do you object to property taxes levied on homes?
Are you sure about this?
You don’t have to pay too much tax, you know - you can take extra exemptions and get nothing back at year’s end (or have to pay a little extra).
It only applies to state income tax refund. The Fed wants their cut. Note that if you owe money to the state, you can take the amount paid as a credit as well. And all this only applies if you itemize on Schedule A, and decide to take the income tax deduction, instead of the sales tax deduction.
And this happens on every street which allows parking, which is IME 99% of them? Move out of East San Jose.
Weeelll, yes. Kinda. For starters the percentage taxed is lower. It’s usually around 1% and a 1% tax on my car, while annoying and inconvenient, would not be nearly as objectionable. My guess based upon bills is that it’s around 5% of the appraised value.
Second, we don’t pay sales tax on home purchases. Right or wrong, that’s just what happens, though the government has to get its cut somehow. I pay sales taxes on my car. So when I pay that, I should be done with the whole transaction.
Third, I can kinda sorta see a justification in the government retaining part ownership in the very land of this nation. They tax us simply for using the land to build upon. The same doesn’t hold true for the car though. I pay land taxes when it’s parked in my driveway and I pay road taxes when I’m driving it to work every day.
None of these are extremely strong arguments, I’ll agree. And if someone wanted to make a case for repealing property taxes as well, I wouldn’t object too strongly. The similarities between personal property and property are large enough that I’m having a difficult time logically differentiating between the two in a way of showing why one is gaulling and the other acceptable. But it is.
Why are you against breast feeding? 
As for the US; 3 strikes laws are a disgrace.
As for the Netherlands, where I live:
chapter 1 article 1 of our constitution should be replaced by something sane.
Also, if we maintain our policy of permitting sale and use of marijuana, it should be legal to grow it on regular agricultural scale. Not doing that is what is keeping organized crime in the marijuana trade and it’s also bad for relations to our neighboring countries (illegal imports).
They don’t tax you on your refund. When you itemize on schedule A, one of the deductions you get is the amount of state tax withheld over the year. Not the state tax you actually owe for the year. I’m assuming this is because you’re supposed to do your federal taxes before your state taxes. So you do your state taxes later, and find you’re due a refund, so in a perfect world the amount on schedule A would be less by the amount of that refund. Rather than go through that rigamarole, they just have you report the refund as income in the following year. If you don’t itemize, you don’t have to report the refund as income.
Think about it this way - if they didn’t make you report that refund, everyone would set their state withholding as high as possible to get themselves a bigger tax break - you’d get a big deduction on your schedule A, and then get a huge refund from the state.
I’m not sure I understand the negatives of your unintended consequence. What’s wrong if people don’t want to move?
Mine:
Ban all rules of Home Owners Associations if it conflicts with existing laws.
Why can’t I park my car on my lawn? Well, now I can!
We once almost got cited (we were given one warning) because we failed to take the garbage cans in the day after the weekly pickup. That’s a stupid law, it’s much more convenient to leave it outside all the time. Hell, if other people want to throw their shit in it, that’s fine with me
I think what they’re trying to say is that people new to the neighborhood/city have to pay more to both make up for the people who aren’t paying much and because so few homes are available since everyone is staying due to the rent control.
That IS a weird law. My town is large enough that there are lots of school buses, but we have several sizes of them. These are especially used in cases where children with special needs require transportation, since there are rarely dozens of kids going to the same place. I thought this was true in other states, too. In these parts, anyway, to mention somebody “takes the short bus” implies that he may have less than average intelligence.
Orange County (FL) Public Schools only has two sizes - short (ie., special needs) and large. I’ve never seen a large bus that didn’t have a nearly-full route, though.
IMHO, many US gun laws are ridiculous. First, I would repeal the 1934 National Firearms Act which regulates machine guns, sound suppressors and shortened rifles and shotguns. It was a reactionary act basically designed to prohibit the less-than-wealthy from owning these types of weapons, requiring a $200 tax stamp for machine guns (the same stamp and fee applies if one wishes to legally own a fully automatic weapon in the USA today); for perspective, the Thompson SMG itself cost about $200 in the 1920s and that was thought expensive. The 1986 “import ban” in the Firearm Owner’s Protection Act also needs to go: it is the reason imported military arms have to be butchered - far beyond removing select-fire capability - before civilian sale and it also drove the price of legal automatic weapons up exorbitantly because all automatics transferable to civilians must be registered prior to 1986.
Here’s another great gun law from my state: in Washington you are allowed to buy a sound suppressor, but it is illegal to actually shoot a weapon with your suppressor attached within the state :smack:
What about the law saying I can’t pump my own gas? That seems pretty silly.
But I’m not convinced that that’s why they have the law. It’s not “no overnight parking” it’s “no parking from 2-6 AM” (which I probably should’ve said in my original post, sorry). Just about every other street that has this policy (and there are a few) literally have signs saying that it’s a night plow route.
And, overnight non-permit parking was not banned there, obviously, which means for that area, it wasn’t a problem. Lute Skywatcher has also seen streets where it is a problem. Generally, in less traveled and higher income areas, it’s not an issue.
Maiira Well, maybe it is. But I have sat on several Parking Commissions, and those are the most given reasons. That, and outsiders parking in a neighborhood, such as when a residential area is within walking distance of dorms and frat houses without enough parking, or with expensive parking.