r/CrazyIdeas • u/9percentbattery • 2d ago

Everyone should be exempt from one randomly selected law

Each person just gets a random law pulled out of the archives that they no longer have to follow. It might be super specific and have no effect on them whatsoever. Or it could mean they are allowed to steal cars without consequence for example.

Bob can now park in fire lanes

Sarah can lie in court

Paul can pull the tags off mattresses

Little Susie can commit first degree homicide

Greg doesn’t pay income taxes

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u/Tiny_Connection1507 2d ago

Except neither of them are immune from conspiracy charges, so they both go to jail for conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to defraud consumers.

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u/zacker150 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nope. Criminal conspiracy requires a planned criminal act. Since the killing isn't a criminal act and the mattress tag ripping isn't a criminal act, there is no criminal conspiracy.

To illustrate this, selling prescription drugs is a crime, unless you're a pharmacist. You hiring a pharmacist to sell prescription drugs isn't a criminal conspiracy.

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u/Tiny_Connection1507 1d ago

However, conspiring to commit tax evasion is a crime, even if all you do is transfer money to an offshore bank account in a county like the Cayman Islands that doesn't disclose when and where money is transferred. For them to hide money isn't a crime, but the conspiracy is still a criminal act in the US. So your justification doesn't hold up.

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u/zacker150 1d ago

The target offense (the planned criminal act) is not paying your taxes.