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Legislative
overkill
To the Editor:
Congratulations Virginians, we’ve been had again. As of July 1 we’ve been handed 600 new laws to abide by. (That’s just in Virginia alone.)
Six hundred laws we knew nothing about . . . laws never voted for or against by the public . . . 600 which, I am sure, all are accompanied by fines aimed at the unwary wrong-doers. Six hundred things we cannot do today that we were perfectly free to do yesterday.
For example: When I went to repair my grandmother’s lovely old spectacles (the old frameless style) I was informed of a new law prohibiting holes from being drilled in glass lenses. A good law, I suppose, if you’re a legislator. The idea, perhaps, is that holes weaken the glass.
Who knows? The bottom line is that it restricted my personal freedom, not to mention my grandma’s vision. Of course she could buy new frames. Maybe that’s the idea.
Six hundred new laws a year. Can you imagine where that will put us by the turn of the century? Not to
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