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Copyright
Limit copyright to 20 years like patents, with no renewals, because renewals just protect the profits of Disney and other wealthy lobbyists.
Make DMCA takedown abuse a felony because it is used to stifle free speech.

Corruption
Issue massive cash rewards for exposing illegal or unethical behavior by government officials. Turn the rats against each other.
Government officials must be held personally financially responsible for illegal or unethical behavior, such as passing the PREP Act.
Ban congressmen and their family members from owning individual stocks, to stop flagrant insider trading like that by Nancy and Paul Pelosi.
Ban all levels of government from attempting to influence public opinion; government should respect and reflect the will of the people.
Make it a felony for any elected official or government employee to knowingly lie to the public, or to materially misrepresent facts to the public.
Require all laws — like vaccine mandates and insider trading bans — to also apply to members of Congress without any exemptions.
End corruption in DC by aggressively rotating out politicians before they can develop their corrupt networks.
Make a point of bringing in total political outsiders as often as possible.
Forbid everyone at the FDA from ever working at any pharma company, and forbid all pharma employees from ever working for the FDA.

Crime and Prisons
Abolish all "hate crime" laws because they inevitably result in unequal application of the law, favoring some groups over others. We already have laws against crime.
Implement public honors and a large cash reward for anyone who captures and flogs a looter or shoplifter or a protester blocking the road.
Require all police to wear functioning bodycams at all times when interacting with public or prisoners, all video to be used as evidence.
End civil forfeiture because it is theft by government.
Ban private prisons because they bribe judges to feed them more prisoners.
Legalize marijuana at the federal level because it is less harmful than alcohol.
Allow free speech for all prisoners so that we can learn about injustice.
Segregate prisons by biological sex. In particular, no men should ever be imprisoned among women.
Define "right to a speedy trial" to mean that a verdict must be reached within one year of imprisonment, defaulting to innocent.
Compensate those found innocent for their unjust time in jail. The money should come from the budget of the agency which imprisoned them.
End selective enforcement of laws by DAs. We should have minimal laws, but they should be enforced 100% of the time to avoid cases like Hunter Biden never being charged.

Discrimination
Forbid government from counting or classifying citizens by race because that is racist.
End racism by refusing to talk about it, as Morgan Freeman suggested in his famous interview with Mike Wallace.
Prohibit any special access to government services regardless of a person's status, wealth, or payment.
Eliminate all government favoritism or exclusion of citizen by race; therefore no Affirmative Action, nor exclusion of whites or Asians from any programs.

Education
Offer a basic citizenship, numeracy, and literacy test for a high school diploma by each state, administered by the Department of Weights and Measures, with objective answers.
Fund college with temporary income share agreements, not loans to give colleges a true motive to help students.
Let middle school and high school students test out of any subject so they don't waste their time.
Require any university which gets government funding to award class credits and degrees purely for passing anonymously graded objective tests, no classes required.
Require simple clear elementary, middle, and high school classes on how to avoid getting trapped in debt.
Create state-level virtual universities of the very best teachers and classes, free for all students of any age.
Allow school choice, where parents can take their tax money to any school in the state, public or private.
Define the promotion of homosexuality or trans ideology to children, especially sodomy or trans flags in classrooms, as child abuse, because it is.
Ban homosexual men from being alone with boys, ever, because most gays were created through pedophilia.
Promote practical education, such as plumbing and HVAC, but also promote reading the traditional Latin and Greek classics, especially in the original languages.
Require middle school and high school courses in the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and how to sue for them.

Food
Make is a serious crime to introduce any insect-based food for humans without prominent warnings on the food that it includes insects.

Foreign Policy
Establish strong borders to prevent illegal immigration, including a wall along the southern US border, to protect low-wage American workers from illegal competition.
Grant US citizenship to any illegal alien who gets his employer convicted of employing him. This would be more effective than a wall.
Put compensating tariffs on foreign goods from countries with lower wages or lower environmental standards, and to protect the US manufacturing base.
Seek national economic self-sufficiency in all necessary goods like oil and medicines so that the US may never be extorted by a foreign country.
Impose an absolute ban on dual citizenship, because it always creates conflicting loyalties. China prohibits dual citizenship for this reason.

Freedom of Speech
Prohibit discrimination in hiring and firing based on political activities outside of work.
Revoke all laws against "hate speech" because it directly violates the First Amendment.

Homelessness
Require mandatory prison time for hard drug use, because most homeless are addicts, and former addicts testify that enforced sobriety in prison saved them.

Immigration
Issue permanent shoot-to-kill orders along both the northern and southern borders.
Require mandatory federal prison time for all employers of illegal aliens.
Eliminate all H1B and similar visas unless the incoming worker is paid at least twice as much as an American would be for that job, to prevent, eg, Facebook's abuse of H1B.

Leaf Blowers
Ban all gasoline powered leaf blowers. They pollute with dirty engines, blow dust around, and make a lot of noise. In some areas the noise and pollution is continuous all week, every week, as one house after another gets gardening service from illegals.

Legislation
Require lesser authorities to defy unconstitutional laws and orders coming from above
Prohibit all "states of emergency" because they are used to subvert the Constitution, as was done in the Wuhan Virus scamdemic.
Create a Constitutional amendment to explicitly state that no part of the Constitution may be suspended ever, for any reason, for any amount of time.
Require all federal laws to be read in their entirety by all legislators before they may vote on them, to discourage lobbyist-written bills.
Require all federal laws to be clear enough that a 12th-grade education is sufficient to understand them perfectly, for more public participation.
Limit bill length to 30 normal-sized pages of normal sized font, for more clarity about what is in the bill, and more public participation.
Promote the principle of very few laws, very well enforced "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -Tacitus.
Guarantee the right of the president to fire anyone within executive branch at any time, especially long-time "civil servants" like Fauci.
Eliminate anti-competitive imposition of "safety" costs on small businesses because those laws are almost all written to benefit large businesses.
Require sunset provisions for all federal laws, requiring a new vote on whether the law is to be continued.
Publicly post all bills two weeks in advance of Congressional vote, to give the public a chance to read them.

Medical Care
Establish a Constitutional ban on lockdowns, mask requirements, and vaccine mandates. They must never be allowed under any circumstance.
Prosecute everyone involved with the creation of Wuhan Virus, especially the mass murderers Fauci, Collins, and Daszak.
Prosecute everyone who abused his or her power to mandate the dangerous and ineffective gene injection, whether in government, schools, or workplaces.
Require short clear written presentation of all non-emergency medical costs before treatment for market discipline of medical costs.
Absolve all patients from legal liability for medical care bills they did not agree to in writing in advance of treatment, aside from emergency care.
Require all emergency medical charges to be limited to fixed prices by law, because there to can be no market in emergencies.
Require medical insurers to give a coverage response to a proposed non-emergency medical bill within one day, again to control medical costs.
Allow import of prescription drugs from Canada.
Make it a felony to offer doctors or other providers payments to administer any drug or treatment.
Ban the practice of charging higher prices for the same medicine or treatment when the patient is uninsured. See image below.
Establish a Constitutional right to visit in person and hug any relative who wants visitors in a hospital or nursing home with no exceptions for any disease on either side. It must be their choice alone, not an administrator's.

Mens Rights
Ban kangaroo courts in corporate HR and University Title IX departments to protect men's rights.
Mandate paternity testing at birth. Eliminate all child support obligation for a non-biological father unless he legally adopts the child.
Require courts to assume that a woman of age, voluntarily alone in a bedroom with a man, has consented to sex.
Grant equal post-conception rights to men.

Military
Eliminate the US Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, replacing them with the National Guard, Coast Guard, and Air National Guard only.
Implement a mandatory death penalty for anyone who deliberately attempts to send US troops off of US soil, especially anyone in US government.
Create a constitutional amendment prohibiting interventionism; American soldiers must never fight except against invasion of America, per George Washington's advice.
Eliminate NATO, because Europe is not America.
Eliminate all US military bases in foreign countries.

Money
Define the dollar as one ounce of 0.999 pure silver. Silver by weight worked well for thousands of years.
Require every business to accept silver metal cash by weight.
Ban all taxes on buying or selling silver. Such taxes are punishment of those who try to avoid being cheated by the Federal Reserve.
Forbid businesses from requiring payment in any form which can be blocked by government, as Canada did against legitimate protestors.
Create a Constitutional prohibition on political discrimination as a reason to deny banking or payment system access.
Require classification and prominent marking of all non-metal payment instruments as "Not money, only a debt, MAY DEFAULT", because they are merely debts.
Establish a Constitutional right to pay all debts and taxes with physical silver by weight, so that everyone can preserve savings as silver metal.
Eliminate the requirement for anyone to accept paper money because all paper money eventually becomes worthless.
Legally define all banking as either storage of silver for a fee, or participation in the bank's lending risk and bank run risk for an interest payment.
Eliminate the Federal Reserve entirely. Let the open market set interest rates at all times.
Limit the annual federal budget by Constitutional amendment to 1% of GDP with no exceptions, especially not for "emergencies".
Completely and permanently eliminate the national debt. Require the federal budget to be paid out of current revenue, similar to the "Swiss brake".

Privacy
Prohibit all levels of government from collecting or holding information on any citizen except as absolutely necessary for census, taxation, or criminal investigation.
Prohibit the government from monitoring the activities of anyone not currently accused of a specific crime. So no mass license plate reading or cell phone tracking.
Require all private people and companies which collect or distribute home addresses and phone numbers to prominently display all of the owners' home addresses and phone numbers, and all similar information they collect. Demand equality of exposure.
Prohibit airlines and other transportation from demanding identity papers. Everyone should be able to travel anonymously, as we did before.

Real Estate
Require notarization and publication of all bids on real estate to slow down the routine fraudulent bidding by realtors.
Require a publicly advertised price for a house to be a legally binding offer to sell at that price.
Prohibit government loan guarantees of all kinds, particularly housing or education loan guarantees, because they simply raise the cost of housing and of college.

Regulation and States Rights
Eliminate all federal government agencies outside of the military and commerce; everything else belongs to the states, as is written in the Constitution.
Eliminate the FBI, CIA, NSA, NIH, FDA, and CDC in particular, with their functions transferred to the states, as is written in the Constitution.
Allow girl scouts to bake their own cookies at home.

Sex
Strictly separate multiple-person bathrooms for men and women, whether a person is mentally ill with the fashionable "trans" disease or not.
Ban gay men from adopting, since the majority are gay because they were molested as boys, and then frequently go on to become molesters themselves.
Ban the sodomy or trans flag from any property funded by tax money however indirectly, especially schools. Only official government flags may be displayed.
Classify homosexuality and transsexuality as the mental illnesses which they are.

Schools
Ban the rainbow sodomy/pedo flag from all schools which receive government money.
Require middle and high school courses in taxes, personal finance, insurance, coding, cooking, home repair, car repair, self-defense, survival skills, etiquette, public speaking, and stress management.

Taxes
Eliminate all state and federal income and sales taxes, to be replaced with Georgist land value taxes and import tariffs.
Swap the current maximum tax rates on income from work vs capital gains until Georgism is implemented and income tax eliminated.
End Prop 13 in California, to be replaced with a land value tax, with zero taxes on buildings.
Prohibit sales tax on used property which was already taxed per the full retail price when first sold. Ultimately eliminate sales tax in favor of a land value tax.
Prohibit all public sector unions, especially teachers unions and prison guard unions. Government workers may not unionize against the people they serve.

Transit
Give official federal priority to fast, safe, cheap rail transit to city centers as in Europe, in place of subsidies and favoritism for cars and highways.
Attempt to re-achieve US energy independence to help keep us out of foreign wars and to improve our balance of trade.

Voting
Free all of the imprisoned Jan 6th protestors and give them each the Congressional Medal of Honor for protesting the fraudulent 2020 election.
Arrest Ray Epps and the other FBI goons for conspiracy and incitement.
Eliminate all voting machines in favor of paper ballots alone because it is insane to give centralized control of the totals to Dominion and similar companies.
Eliminate ail mail-in voting or drop boxes; have only paper ballots with photo ID in person at a local school on that one day only, counted by each party; Israeli style.
Require proof of US citizenship to vote.
Establish the inalienability of the right to vote for all US citizens, whether in prison or not.
Publicly fund all congressional and presidential campaigns.
Set term limits for Congress: 6x for the House, and twice for the Senate, so 12 years each, maximum.
Require a roll call vote in both houses of Congress on the verbatim topic of any petition with more than 10% popular support, without amendments.

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1   BayArea   2017 Feb 19, 6:28am  

No sales tax on used cars/boats/motorcycles that were already taxed per the full retail price when those items were first sold. I would extend that out to used anything that was already taxed at full retail price previously.

Eliminate permanent housing subsidy prop-ups like section-8.

Eliminate BS visual inspections during smog checks. If it passes the tailpipe test (what actually affects the environment), it passes! As you can see I'm bitter for being hassled about some air filter that CA didn't see as compliant even though the tailpipes test was clean as a whistle.

2   Booger   2017 Feb 19, 6:30am  

Remove tax incentives for having children.

3   Tenpoundbass   2017 Feb 19, 6:49am  

Patrick says

* short clear written presentation of non-emergency medical costs before treatment, universally fixed costs for emergency treatment

I remember if you got hurt or really sick, they encouraged you to go the Hostpital. The Emergency Room was just a waiting room with nurses.
There were blue signs with a White H on the route to the Hospital. What ever they do Emergency Room related medical costs should still be considered as to cap roving Doctors that pop in to Hospital billing offices and sign their name on medical records they had nothing to do with. Bills still come 9 months later.

I think killing the insurance industry will pull medicine back in line. It's not like nobody will make medicine if Billionares aren't making 700% profit on it.

4   Tenpoundbass   2017 Feb 19, 6:51am  

Booger says

Remove tax incentives for having children.

Or replace it with just one Family tax break regardless of family size.

5   MrEd   2017 Feb 19, 7:55am  

To mitigate global warming outlaw gasoline powered vehicles and convert carpool lanes to chariot lanes pulled by teams of illegal aliens.

6   CBOEtrader   2017 Feb 19, 8:09am  

"* a ban on corporate and university kangaroo courts"

This would be the anti SJW immediate attention grabber.

Post an article about how the "The Hunting Grounds" and other extreme rape activism movies are fake news, anti-civil rights, etc... I know the producer. She inherited $100million from her father (her brother is my good friend), but she soapboxes about white male privilege and rape culture. Annoying AF. Ill tweet it to her and start a shitstorm:)

7   BayArea   2017 Feb 19, 8:24am  

I have kids and I'm for eliminating the tax break for having kids because I cannot defend it in a debate.

8   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 9:19am  

BayArea says

No sales tax on used cars/boats/motorcycles that were already taxed per the full retail price when those items were first sold. I would extend that out to used anything that was already taxed at full retail price previously.

Yes, seems very unfair to get taxed twice on the same thing. Added above.

9   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 9:21am  

Any angle on shrinking the 4th branch of government.

10   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 9:22am  

BayArea says

Eliminate permanent housing subsidy prop-ups like section-8.

I'm not so sure about this one. What about elderly or disabled people? They got to be somewhere and have not means of working to pay rent.

11   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 9:23am  

rando says

BayArea says

No sales tax on used cars/boats/motorcycles that were already taxed per the full retail price when those items were first sold. I would extend that out to used anything that was already taxed at full retail price previously.

Yes, seems very unfair to get taxed twice on the same thing. Added above.

End subsidies that keep single mothers single.

12   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 9:23am  

indigenous says

Any angle on shrinking the 4th branch of government.

What group do you actually mean there? Lobbyists?

13   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 9:28am  

Lobbyist's is a tough one because it is a constitutional right.

I'm thinking the Federal department of education, energy, agriculture, FEMA, Homeland Security, etc.

14   FortWayne   2017 Feb 19, 9:35am  

Patrick says

* mandatory jailing (not fines, jail) of employers of illegal immigrants for 30 days per violation

That would stop illegal hiring on after the first news report of a dude going to jail for a year after hiring around 10 illegals.

15   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 9:37am  

Yup.

16   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 9:39am  

Patrick says

mandatory jailing (not fines, jail) of employers of illegal immigrants for 30 days per violation

Only if in conjunction with stopping the subsidies for immigrants. 1/3 of US welfare goes to Calif...

17   anonymous   2017 Feb 19, 9:59am  

i second the kangaroo court issue. corporations have completely caved in to the SJW, and it's not a passive issue.

definition: SJW in corporate-speak is called "diversity and inclusion" and what it actually is in practice is anti-white-hetero-male

the executive body sets up a "hotline" run by SJW's to receive SJW complaints and perceived violations of policy. investigations are then conducted by SJW's.

18   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 11:17am  

Another one could be how Saul Alinsky has created the current kerfuffle with the leftys and created HRC and Obama and the multicultural BS

19   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 11:47am  

Single-payer is alt-right?

20   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 11:56am  

indigenous says

Another one could be how Saul Alinsky has created the current kerfuffle with the leftys and created HRC and Obama and the multicultural BS

But what would be the desired new law, or changed old law?

21   Dan8267   2017 Feb 19, 12:02pm  

Patrick says

More ideas anyone?

Damn, Patrick for president. I agree with everything, except physical gold and silver money, which are too easily manipulated. I'd prefer a crypto-currency solution to the problem of countering currency debasement.

As for more ideas, many, but I don't have time for a long post right now. So a short list...
- Rewrite the Constitution
- Voting is a right, not a privilege, and that right cannot be taken away.
- Ban all searches that constitute rape or sexual assault.
- Revoke the freedom of religion clause of the First Amendment. Religion should have no privileges.
- Shore up the freedom of press and speech by having an explicit list of specific exceptions and anything not on the list is protected speech.
- Anyone in one branch of the government can never run or work for another branch.
- Anyone with a parent, child, or sibling who holds any public office cannot run for office.
- Unlimited IP telephony / Skype services for prisoners. It can be monitored, but access not limit except for demonstrable security reasons. And it should not cost anything.
- Demilitarize the police and replace occupation with community policing
- Emphasize rehabilitation
- End the war on drugs
- Physically move Israel, including all the "holy" dirt so someplace far from the Middle East. It's less expensive than all this warfare.
- Single payer clearinghouse that publishes all prices for medical services and streamlines all billing and collection
- Nationalize all health insurance. It's more economically efficient.
- Seize the farms of any farm owner who uses illegal labor knowingly
- End all property forfeiture and prosecute those who use it to commit robbery
- Create a national virtual university that is free for all students of any ages and thoroughly tests students with high standards. Later expand to high school.

22   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 12:29pm  

I agree with many of these and incorporated some of your ideas into the original post above. I especially love the idea of a free national virtual university, end to property confiscation, a single-payer clearinghouse of prices by provider, Skype for prisoners, inalienable right for US citizens to vote.

I'd rather not touch the Constitution. I agree voting should be an inalienable right for US citizens. I don't see searches being sexual assault to any significant degree, and there remains the practical problems of searching for weapons. I'm against political dynasties, but don't want to explicitly forbid anyone from holding office, just like I would not take away their right to vote. The war on drugs has definitely failed (except for huge profits for the prison industry) so marijuana at least should be federally legal. Not sure the country would survive legalization of, say, heroin or cocaine.

The holy land isn't just the dirt. It's the physical spot on earth. They would fight anyway.

23   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 12:30pm  

rando says

indigenous says

Another one could be how Saul Alinsky has created the current kerfuffle with the leftys and created HRC and Obama and the multicultural BS

But what would be the desired new law, or changed old law?

It is not a law, it is about ignorance and a culture of ignorance.

24   BayArea   2017 Feb 19, 12:52pm  

Absolutely legalize cocaine, no question

25   Dan8267   2017 Feb 19, 6:59pm  

rando says

It's the physical spot on earth.

The Earth's core is molten and rotating. That physical spot is in constant motion. Make them choose between the sacred latitude and longitude coordinates or the sacred land. They can't have both.

We could move the land and the holy buildings to some nice spot west of Europe or Africa and give Israel ten times the land it currently has. I think the Israelis are practical enough to appreciate that.

The fact is that the Muslim world is not ready to grow the fuck up and accept living around Jews. It's just not happening.

26   Dan8267   2017 Feb 19, 7:00pm  

BayArea says

Absolutely legalize cocaine, no question

Why should the possession and use of any drug be illegal? How does throwing drug addicts in jail help cure addiction? Sweden has the right model. Swedish models are usually quite beautiful.

27   RealEstateIsBetterThanStocks   2017 Feb 19, 7:30pm  

Booger says

Remove tax incentives for having children.

28   RealEstateIsBetterThanStocks   2017 Feb 19, 7:33pm  

legalize prostitution

29   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 10:03pm  

RealEstateIsBetterThanStocks says

legalize prostitution

I don't feel very strongly about that either way. I can see that prostitution has some real harms, like psych damage to the prostitute, and spreading disease. But otoh, people should be able to fuck up however they want as long as they are not hurting others.

Dan8267 says

Why should the possession and use of any drug be illegal? How does throwing drug addicts in jail help cure addiction? Sweden has the right model. Swedish models are usually quite beautiful.

Again, if people want to fuck up their own lives, they should have the right. But otoh again, some drugs are pretty damaging and hard to resist once the user is hooked. On the third hand, the drug trade and the drug war itself are massively damaging, mostly because the drug are illegal. The only one I'm absolutely sure should be legal is pot.

30   GNL   2017 Feb 19, 10:08pm  

Patrick says

I want Patrick.net to help do some truly useful politically incorrect things. I'm trying to come up with a list of very simple clear campaigns to make or change laws. Here's my initial group:

  1. mandatory paternity testing at birth with zero child support obligations for non-biological fathers unless they voluntarily adopt the child
  2. a ban on corporate HR and university PC kangaroo courts; no firing or expulsion unless government court determines law has been broken
  3. proof of US citizenship as requirement to vote
  4. mandatory jailing (not fines, jail) of employers of illegal immigrants for 30 days per violatio and seizure of any farm who's owner who uses illegal labor knowingly
  5. short clear written presentation of non-emergency medical costs before treatment and universally fixed costs for emergency treatment
  6. single payer healthcare, no private insurance companies
  7. publicly funded congressional and presidential campaig...

Oh Patrick, how quaint. Simply makes too much sense and takes money out of the pockets of those in control.

31   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 10:17pm  

You have quite a laundry list, could it be summed up by saying you after individual liberty?

32   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 10:23pm  

Yes, I was just trying to summarized them, and they are mostly about liberty, about not being manipulated, trapped, marginalized, and exploited.

33   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 10:25pm  

A red pill type of a deal?

I first heard of you from Chris Martenson, he has a similar purpose.

I have since decided I disagree with him about peak everything, which has proven about peak oil.

34   Patrick   2017 Feb 19, 10:35pm  

I actually met Christ Martenson. He's a smart guy, but he was just very wrong about oil.

I first read in The Skeptical Environmentalist that we're actually proving more reserves per year, every year. It's just harder to get at.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeptical_Environmentalist

35   indigenous   2017 Feb 19, 10:39pm  

Not to mention how quickly technology is changing and alternative sources, e.g. fracking is only the beginning which (I believe) in effect has made the US independent on oil. Which has been a goal (the mandate of the dept of energy, BTW why do they exist then?) for many decades, really mind blowing that hardly even is mentioned.

Chris is an example of how the scientific method gets it wrong.

36   CBOEtrader   2017 Feb 19, 11:58pm  

i want women to buy the first drink in a bar. I'm worth it dammit!

37   BayArea   2017 Feb 20, 5:51am  

rando says

Yes, I was just trying to summarized them, and they are mostly about liberty, about not being manipulated, trapped, marginalized, and exploited.

rando says

mandatory paternity testing

should we change the paternity testing statement to "if either party requests" ?

38   Dan8267   2017 Feb 20, 8:04am  

BayArea says

should we change the paternity testing statement to "if either party requests" ?

An often cited reason for legally requiring a man to submit to paternity testing even if he's not agreeing to raising the kid is that the child has a human right to know his or her family medical history, and this right trumps the privacy of either parent. Well, wrong information is way worse than no information. If a child thinks his parent is one person, who's family has a history of heart attacks, when it's really another person, who's family has a history of cancer, decisions made on the basis of that false information could cost the child his life and also endangers his children and grandchildren who also receive incorrect medical history information.

So yes, paternity testing should be mandatory. There is no downside unless you consider revealing affairs to be a downside.

39   BayArea   2017 Feb 20, 8:12am  

I understand what you are saying, but subjecting people to "mandatory" testing in the case that no party involved needs, wants, or is requesting it seems too far?

40   Dan8267   2017 Feb 20, 9:07am  

BayArea says

I understand what you are saying, but subjecting people to "mandatory" testing in the case that no party involved needs, wants, or is requesting it seems too far?

Not today when your family medical history affects treatment and your genetic code is used to determine if you match a crime scene.

I'd be more concern about civil rights involved in mandatory DNA testing people arrested or convicted of crimes and storing their genetic code in databases forever than in parental testing to safeguard against bad medical decisions and preventing paternal fraud.

The actual procedure of paternal testing has essentially zero costs and is completely non-invasive.

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