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Originally posted by ltl/fb
You propose an alternative that proves that 3 is what's happening, rather than 2.
There's another choice -- I kind of doubt that the actual elected official sponsoring the legislation wrote it. So, it may be that the sponsor himself has no evil nefarious intent, but the writer does.
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Ah, the old "disprove a negative" stratagem. An oldie but goodie. Ty seems to have come up with a pretty good alternative, which I'd like to see argued why it's insufficient.
And you've hit on the problem of legislative intent. WHat are the true intentions and how do we measure them. Assuming we use them at all, one has to go on stated intentions. Until we have those statements from teh floor of the house/senate, I'm happy to accept, at least temporarily, those made in advance of the amendment's introduction.
