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sop

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2. "Society's problems can't all be fixed by law."

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 21, 2021, 08:38 AM

Dec 2021

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fairness Doctrine of 1949 and the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974 were all laws created to solve society's problems.

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"[Robert] Reich has two ideas that he thinks don't undermine free speech. He's simply wrong." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 OP

Reich is wrong a lot of times, especially in a lot of his economic pronouncements JohnSJ Dec 2021 #1

"Society's problems can't all be fixed by law." sop Dec 2021 #2

Did they fix them? Ocelot II Dec 2021 #3

These laws didn't fail, they were undone by opponents precisely because they were working. sop Dec 2021 #4

Cohn sounds like a libertarian. Fiendish Thingy Dec 2021 #5