Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!hplabs!ames!al From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: NOT about Libertarianism. Message-ID: <792@ames.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 21:22:11 EST Article-I.D.: ames.792 Posted: Thu Feb 7 21:22:11 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 03:41:26 EST References: <255@talcott.UUCP><1341@dciem.UUCP> <633@unmvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 7 > ........ 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 rarely rescinded (even if the conditions that brought about the law have since 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 The 55 m.p.h. limit was never rescinded because the number of traffic fatalities went WAY down when the speed limit was lowered.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.