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On Mar 15, 8:32 am, [email protected] wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2007 06:59:18 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >[email protected] wrote:
>
> >> The MHL is California is not an issue for you?
>
> >Listen, stop trying to equate MHLs for adults with
> >MHLs for kids. Nobody's buying it.
>
> An MHL is an MHL - there may be exceptions for some, but for the
> others (more than 10 million in California) it is still the law.
>
> And the politicians know that the best way to get a bad law passed is
> to make it apply first to those who cannot vote; when they are cowed,
> then it is easier to include the rest.
Gee, it doesn't seem to work that way with motorcycle MHLs; despite
virtually all states having a "child/minor" motorcycle MHL (ages/
details vary by state), *universal* motorcycle MHLs have been on a
steady *decrease*, from a high of 47 states in 1975 to 20 as of 2001:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ynjet
(see the graph on the right, about a third of the way down)
How do ya 'splain that, Chicken Little? ;-)
> On 15 Mar 2007 06:59:18 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >[email protected] wrote:
>
> >> The MHL is California is not an issue for you?
>
> >Listen, stop trying to equate MHLs for adults with
> >MHLs for kids. Nobody's buying it.
>
> An MHL is an MHL - there may be exceptions for some, but for the
> others (more than 10 million in California) it is still the law.
>
> And the politicians know that the best way to get a bad law passed is
> to make it apply first to those who cannot vote; when they are cowed,
> then it is easier to include the rest.
Gee, it doesn't seem to work that way with motorcycle MHLs; despite
virtually all states having a "child/minor" motorcycle MHL (ages/
details vary by state), *universal* motorcycle MHLs have been on a
steady *decrease*, from a high of 47 states in 1975 to 20 as of 2001:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ynjet
(see the graph on the right, about a third of the way down)
How do ya 'splain that, Chicken Little? ;-)