America's Debate Radio invites you to join in on our special, June 28th 'There Outta Be a Law' Show.

You get to be the ultimate ruler for a day. What laws would you pass if you were in charge? How would you make the world bend to your will? From the trivial to the unusual, we want your suggestions.

How to participate?

1. PM Mike or me with your suggestions and we'll read them on the air.

2. Post your suggestions to this thread and Mike and I will read them on the air.

3. Call-in to the America's Debate Radio voicemail and leave us a message. Please note that when you call, the voicemail is answered by a Norwegian sounding lady and she never mentions in the outgoing message. Yes, you have the right number.

4. The BEST Option: Call-in after 9pm eastern on June 28th and tell us on the air what laws you think need to be enacted.

If you chose options 1-3, there are no limits to how many suggestions you make. If you call-in live we'll likely cut you off after 15 minutes, but if you can't get all your laws named in that time, we probably can't help you anyway.

Jump in and tell us what makes you say, There Outta Be a Law!

Ban all pennies. Nobody cares about them anymore. They aren't even copper anymore. They cost more to make than they are worth.

Round everything off to the nearest nickel, heck many of the stores I go to do this now de facto.

Finally, pennies are a conspiracy of the vacuum cleaner lobby. Only the vacuum cleaners all of the dropped pennies break make them worth anything to anybody.

Short of that we could at least make the penny doubled-headed with Clinton on one side and GWB on the other.

There oughta be a law against new laws.

Seriously, I hope constitutional amendments are not out of the question. What I'd specifically be after is an amendment restricting the power of taxation. It should require a supermajority to raise taxes, and tax rates should go down automatically a certain percentage every couple of years or so unless bumped back up by the required supermajority vote.

That's next week.



I like the sentiment... there might be a way to turn that into an amendment. I like the idea of automatic sunset clauses in general. The law keeps getting more complicated and difficult to understand. The IRS help line can't even answer tax law questions reliably. Maybe we could have a requirement that for every word added to the U.S. Code, at least one must be removed.

There outta be a law against selling any items over 70 dollars that say 'made in China' (with of course the exception of cloisonne vases and the like). Example, Doc Martin shoes. When they were made in England they were some of the best quality shoes in the world, then much of the industry was outsourced to China. The quality for those is now on par with Payless, for the old expensive price. I'd pay more if I actually had the option, but there is no option for 'better Doc Martins' and 'crappy Docs made in China'. China needs to stick to what it knows....pirating DVDs and making cheap plastic trinkets.


Runners up: There should be a law against Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks making a movie together. 'Nuff said.

All bumper stickers (and yard signs or flags, ect) that start with the words 'my child is...'

Advertisements that make you think you need an SUV because your child isn't safe in a regular car.

Oh! And dishes that aren't machine washable. What's up with that? I could go on and on.

Edited to add: There's more! There should be a law against school sponsored student sales. These children as strongarmed into selling products for "points" and "parties" when it is actually illegal for them to work as a salesperson at a job for money. It's exploitive, and if they don't "sell" they are letting their class down, ergo parents have to buy the stuff. They might as well bill parents on the first day of school for an obligatory five pounds of brownies and spare us all the trouble of the ruse....In fact I'll make this my number one "Outta be a law" instead of the runner-up.

Oops, thanks, Jobius, maybe I should post my idea on that thread.

By the way, does anyone know if there might be a "There Oughta Be a Law REPEALED Show"? There are a lot of crazy laws on the books already, so maybe we could have a segment dedicated to getting some ideas as to which ones to get rid of. There's one I can think of right off the bat. There's a law that requires employers to post new job openings for a minimum of 5 days, even if they have someone lined up for the position. That wastes everybody's time - the employer's, the employee-designate's, and most of all, it wastes the time of the poor schmuck (I've been there myself) who's filling out applications and going to interviews for a job he has essentially no chance of getting.

Drive-a-me-crazy-go-nutz... (arms gesticulating, Italian-style)

There ought to be a law or two....or three.....

There ought to be a law...that good teachers should be held in high regard and that producing a worthy education system should be made the top-most priority...hoew esle ppl comunikate goode and undresatnd ecah ohter?

There should be a law that bands cop cars from hiding in bushes to catch speeders. Being sneaky is not nice.

There ought to be a law... That stupid people can NOT be appointed president. (Not pointing any fingers)..lol

Don't forget! Tonight is the special There Outta Be A Law Show. If you can't make it, shoot me a PM or call now and leave us a voicemail.

Can't wait to talk to all of you tonight. This should be loads of fun.

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