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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Your posts go way beyond anything I said. My comment was about wasting taxpayer money to enforce a law that they have never been able to enforce in my lifetime. Period. My posts didn't say anything about heroin, fentanyl, drugs addicts, or drunk driving. Conducting a sting operation to punish a sales clerk doesn't do anything to prevent minors from drinking alcohol. Taxpayer money should be spent wisely, not wasted on things that have never worked.
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The War on Drugs is also a failure. They haven't stopped drugs from ruining the lives of millions of addicts or their families. Your comment is exactly as you say: wasting taxpayer money to enforce a law they haven't ever been able to enforce in your lifetime.
There are LOTS of laws they haven't ever been able to enforce in your lifetime. You seem to be stuck on this one individual law, and are ignoring the parameters you yourself have set for your part in the conversation.
Bicycles, golf carts, and cars rolling through intersections at stop signs? Speeding? Shoplifting? Mass shooting? Wife-beating? All of these things are "laws that they haven't ever been able to enforce in your lifetime." But you don't seem to feel that THEY aren't a waste of money. Why not? Why is this one law - selling booze to minors - a waste, when the inability to enforce other laws are also not a waste?