Positions and Views of Steven A. Rosile
on Alcohol, Cigarettes & Gambling
| Previous Candidate for United States House Of Representatives District 4, Kansas |
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| Alcohol, Cigarettes & Gambling |
Positions and Views |
| Alcohol, a General Statement |
See below.
Source: Steven A. Rosile (09/25/2008) |
| Lower Drinking Age from 21 |
I support this for several reasons. First, the federal mandate that spurred all states to raise the drinking age was unconstitutional and each state should determine its own drinking laws. Second, it is basically unenforceable and leads to binge drinking and other dangerous behaivior. Here in Kansas, when 18 year-olds could legally purchase and consume low alcohol beer, cereal malt beverage such as is still available in grocery and convenience stores for those 21 years and older, they had the opportunity to learn their personal limits and to drink (more) responsibly. As it is now they are made to wait until they are 21 years of age to legally purchase and consume any type of alcoholic beverege and so they basically are then given the keys to the candy store without any legal opportunity to learn their personal limits and (more) responsible drinking habits. I feel that a policy such as this, which used to be the law in Kansas, is a better means of gradually allowing young people to learn the effects of alcohol and how to use it properly and safely.
Source: Steven A. Rosile (09/25/2008) |
| Requiring States Set the Legal Drinking Age to 21 to Receive Federal Funds |
Oppose. See above.
Source: Steven A. Rosile (09/25/2008) |
| Selling Alcohol To Minors |
See below.
Source: Steven A. Rosile (09/25/2008) |
| Drunk Driving And Breath Tests |
Drunk driving is a threat to others and so laws punishing it are proper. However, the current arbitrary standard of 0.08% is much to low for most people. Actual evidence of the person's fitness to drive from video or digital recordings would be more accurrate and fair than any breath, blood or urine tests.
Source: Steven A. Rosile (09/25/2008) |
| Underage Drinking |
See below.
Source: Steven A. Rosile (09/25/2008) |
| Cigarettes, a General Statement |
I quit smoking cigarrettes 30 years ago. It was my decision based on many factors. For the past 15 years or so I have chewed and occassionally smoked cigars, about a half dozen per year. Such a choice should be up to the individual.
Smoking bans are an infringment of business owners rights and should never be applied to private businesses. If you don't wish to be around tobbaco smoke don't patronize businesses that allow it. The Surgeon General arbitrarily lowered the threshhold from 95% certainty to 90% certainty when making his claim that scientific studies showed healh problems resulting from second hand smoke were statistically signifigant. The scientific standard for making the claim of statistical signifigance is 95%, not 90%. The Surgeon General's statement and claim is not based on sound science and is therefore not accurrate. Smoking bans based on the Surgeon General's staement are improper and violate private property rights.
Source: Steven A. Rosile (09/25/2008) |
| Smoking and Tobacco Buyout |
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| Gambling, a General Statement |
Gambling is not somrthing I feel the state should prohibit or promote. Private gambling should not be illegal and each state should make its own decision whether to allow casino gambling.
A recent decision of the Kansas Supreme Court that stated the Lottery Amendment allows casino gambling because the intensive state regulation and control of the casinos is the equivalent of ownership and operation by the state, and so satisfies these two requrements of the Lottery Amendment. This reasoning should greatly alarm every Kansan. I remember when the Lottery Amendment was proposed and the state of Kansas and its promoters all agreed and assured the public that the Amendment would never allow for casino style gambling in this state.
The definition of all property in a socialist/communist state is "government ownership or control". The Kansas Supreme Court seems to be using this definition in its decision equating "control" in the form of regulation, to ownership and operation.
This decision is so plainly wrong that the Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court should be ashamed of themselves and resign. The casino style gambling that is coming to Kansas should not be allowed until such time as a Constitutional Amendment is passed that provides for it.
Source: Steven A. Rosile (09/25/2008) |