Comments on: California Govt. Targets Child Actors

By: BuckTooth

BuckTooth — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:02:16 +0000

Will they be charging pregnant mothers the fee because one day the child just might get an acting job. I sure would move out of Obamafornia.

By: kadaka

kadaka — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:17:23 +0000

They also fingerprint you in Kalifornia? Big Brother lives. There is enough of an issue right now to get the police to purge information of those not convicted, DNA and fingerprints, the UK is being more respectful of privacy than we are. This acceptance of "just in case" government mentality must end.

By: Thebutlerdidit

Thebutlerdidit — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:17:19 +0000

Andrew is proposing we Ding Dong Ditch the Mexicans? Leaving the deed to Cali is actually probably worse than leaving flaming dog poop on the step. At least you can clean that mess up fairly quickly.

By: Hank_Reardon

Hank_Reardon — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:05:15 +0000

Actually…I think his model is France…

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Crack Down on Child Labor! By Taxing It | KyleSmithOnline.com — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:39:59 +0000

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By: Cardinal_Fang

Cardinal_Fang — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:38:53 +0000

What does this have to do with the topic at hand? Begone, foul troll! Find someplace else to post your masturbatory ramblings.

By: Who?

Who? — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:45:44 +0000

What the hell does any of this have to do with the topic? We're talking about a California child tax law, and you decide you would rather talk about a nutcase who killed another nutcase? Partial birth abortionists are murderers. People who murder murderers are murderers. Now get off your lefty baby-murder support platform, give up on your crap about every abortion opponent being a potential murderer, recognize the hate you condemn exists in far larger numbers on the left than on the right, take your meds, and go post at the Daily Kos or HuffPo.

By: chuckdevore

chuckdevore — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:08:50 +0000

Big difference with a driver's license — it is the most commonly used form of government ID. They fingerprint you, ask for your current address, photograph you, and conduct a vision test. Again, the Labor Dept. provides no added value — none whatsoever. The permit did not even exist prior to 1999. Let's just abolish it.

By: Aesop

Aesop — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:35:04 +0000

BTW, the state could offset 2,000 low-income kids working in Hollywood for free each year for every $200K useless crony appointment to frivolous make-work state commissions that's been made by our Governor.
I find it particularly egregious that he campaigned against those very jobs, yet now fills them, especially with those termed out of office or voted out by their constituents.

Why not work on lopping *that* out of the state budget?

By: Aesop

Aesop — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:26:54 +0000

And Mr. DeVore, the same is true of my driver's license. I pay a nominal fee, and other than the merest of vision tests, it does little to protect me or other drivers. Yet no one is arguing for letting car dealers license drivers.

While I agree that raising the fee per AB 402 is ridiculous and unwarranted, the answer isn't to throw the baby out with the bathwater by the state abdicating its licensing resonsibility. It's to demand that the state fulfill it's obligations to oversee the mandated deposit of funds, and see that safety and educational concerns are followed. And charge for that no more than the actual costs of such oversight.

Thanks for your response.