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...your Essay suggests, teen-agers and the automobile are two of the leading causes of crime, why not separate them? Except in unusual cases, for which legal provision could be made, teen-agers do not need cars. If the law required a high school diploma (or a minimum age of 20) before issuing driver's licenses, there would be strong motivation for students to remain in school. Accidents involving teenagers, notoriously the most dangerous of all drivers, would be substantially reduced, as would car thefts. Perhaps most important, teen-agers might stay home at night to study, thus helping...
...favoring strippers. The law prohibits stripping within 100 feet of any public road, stream, park, school or building. Strippers, when they apply for a mining permit, must now submit a detailed advance plan of how they intend to reclaim the mined land. They are further required to carry a minimum of $50,000 liability insurance to cover damages from sliding overburden to any adjacent property owners, who may recover three times the actual damage...
...minimum wage should be made higher. Rustin added, so that all can make enough to live on. Small businessmen brutalized by the higher salaries they'd have to pay should be subsidized as small farmers are at present, he said...
Even more important, someone will have to decide exactly what a "pass" means. The College presently requires a minimum of eleven and a half C-'s for graduation. "Would a pass count as a C- or a D?" Norr asked...
Michigan still does not have an income tax, and revenues depend upon high property and sales taxes. Romney introduced a proposal for a graduated income tax in 1963, but the Republican legislature voted it down. After reapportionment, a Democratic legislature passed his minimum-wage law--Michigan's first...