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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
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Subject: Re: NOT about Libertarianism.
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 21:22:11 EST
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> ........  When a law is made it is
> rarely rescinded (even if the conditions that brought about the law have since
> changed for the better (i.e. income tax and 55 m.p.h. speed limit))..... 

The 55 m.p.h. limit was never rescinded because the number of traffic fatalities
went WAY down when the speed limit was lowered.  I don't know the exact
numbers but I believe it involved many thousands fewer deaths per year.