Gripes with Mass Law

I've always disliked Massachusetts State Law, it's usually ridiculous and stupid. It's gotten so bad, some of us residents have nicknamed it the "No Fun State". No fireworks, no smoking in public places, almost no smoking in private places, no driving without seatbelts/helmets, no cigar bars, no purchasing of violent video games without a valid ID (seriously. I never thought I'd ever be carded trying to pick up a copy of Resident evil {rated M for fantasy blood, gore and violence. Seriously. Zombies don't even exist. How can a kid even begin to try and legitimize something like that}). This state is just ridiculous.

On top of this, we are looking at a new bill and a new law.
The bill: for parking at Logan Airport, a $1 charge per day for carbon emissions. I'm a bit of a global warming/climate change skepticist; I'm not ready to declare that the climate change is human caused, or how much is human caused, I don't know. But I do know that it isn't right to charge someone a carbon emission toll, especially when the money is going to other state programs, and not anything to try and counter carbon emissions (if you can even really do that).

The law: Permits are now required to have open trenches in your area, and they must be properly boarded up. So now you have to pay the government to dig a hole in your lawn (no standardization of what constitutes a trench, laws are often misinterpreted around here, so a hole will suffice), and you must board it up to protect yourself from it.

Piece of advice from me: If anyone tells you theyre signing a bill to protect lives of people, and it results in them fining you in any way, it's a scam.

I'll always remember the click-it-or-ticket commercial, "cops give tickets to save lives". Yeah right. I don't need the government to try and save my life and tell me how to live. I use a seatbelt because i choose to, not because someone makes me. Allow common sense to rule, and we won't have to waste hours on these stupid bills. But then again, we're in the "No Fun State" that taxes the crap out of everything.

If that's the case, then why do we still need the money? I say cut programs. This state is not living within its means. There are too many government programs. If we just cut some, we can actually have some sort of revenue. We won't have to worry about doing too much more with taxation, seeing as we're already being taxed like crazy. I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think common sense and beuracracy mix too well.