Did I Just Start Hallucinating?
Living my life down here in the VI, I often think that I have a handle on how things work. Sure, things are a little strange, but I'm used to it. Then I see something like this on a headline:
Governor Calls Bar ID Checks Bad for Business
Excuse me? Carding may be “bad for business” in that it requires someone to actually check peoples IDs, but the social good seems to outweigh the “badness” to the business.
Then I read the article and see that some of our senators (members of the unicameral USVI legistlative body) think that carding people in bars would "place more restrictions on young people." Yeah, good point. That whole driver’s license thing that we all have to do restricts young people from driving. In fact, there are a bunch of laws that mention age in them. Why don’t we free the young and just get rid of all those pesky “restrictive” laws.
Anyway, Kendra emailed me this article, and it kinda blew my mind. Granted, the bill might be poorly written and shouldn’t become law using its current language, but I think it would be great if the senators worried about revising the bill, rather than worrying about harming our youth by restricting access to alcohol to those of the legal age (which I might add, is 18 not 21 in the USVI).
The full text of the article is available here.
Governor Calls Bar ID Checks Bad for Business
Excuse me? Carding may be “bad for business” in that it requires someone to actually check peoples IDs, but the social good seems to outweigh the “badness” to the business.
Then I read the article and see that some of our senators (members of the unicameral USVI legistlative body) think that carding people in bars would "place more restrictions on young people." Yeah, good point. That whole driver’s license thing that we all have to do restricts young people from driving. In fact, there are a bunch of laws that mention age in them. Why don’t we free the young and just get rid of all those pesky “restrictive” laws.
Anyway, Kendra emailed me this article, and it kinda blew my mind. Granted, the bill might be poorly written and shouldn’t become law using its current language, but I think it would be great if the senators worried about revising the bill, rather than worrying about harming our youth by restricting access to alcohol to those of the legal age (which I might add, is 18 not 21 in the USVI).
The full text of the article is available here.
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