836 sats \ 3 replies \ @scottathan 1 Feb \ on: If you could eliminate one law, which one would it be? culture
Good question.
High up on the list would be the Controlled Substances Act, or just drug prohibition laws more generally.
Most zoning ordinances would be awesome to remove.
To give a +1 to @BlokchainB, the PARTRIOT Act and the Bank Secrecy Act would be fantastic to remove.
Almost all subsidies need to go.
If the US could support it I would love to end forced taxation and move to more of a voluntaryist framework for funding.
The Jones Act doesn't have massive effects, but peeves me badly, so that would be good to get rid of.
Basically there are too many to name
Zoning is a really interesting one. It's a damn shame there isn't more mixed zoning.. Would have been rad to grow up in the burbs, but still have some shops and such in the neighborhood, rather than needing a car to drive across town to get anything done. Maybe I wouldn't be so allergic to suburbs if there was something actually there.
Zoning laws could probably be blamed for our total lack of cultural cohesion and Third Places. (Speaking from a US perspective)
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There's a lot, but I feel like the biggest ones are those that essentially mandate the building of single family homes and don't allow for any other type of housing. It drives up housing costs and exacerbates homelessness significantly.
I'd also like it if there were less of a separation between commercial and residential zoning, and if things like minimum parking requirements on businesses were removed.
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