Keep in mind that military families were there primary customer (target due to the guaranteed income). To my knowledge, the federal law doesn't ban them, but restricts them:

It prohibits:


Requiring military members to set up an allotment as a condition of receiving a loan.

Requiring the use of a vehicle title as security for any loans made to service members and military family members.

Using a check or any other access to a member's financial account as security for a loan.

Lenders from renewing, repaying, refinancing, rolling over, or consolidating consumer credit using the proceeds of other credit granted by the same lender to the military member.

Requiring military members to waive their rights under the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act (SCRA), or any other federal law.

Denying the opportunity for military members to pay the loan off early, and any penalties for early payments.

Any unreasonable clauses in the contract designed to make it difficult for military members to take a creditor to court.

States from allowing creditors to violate state consumer loan protection laws for military members who are nonresidents.


>>>There's a simpler way: ban SUVs and home trucks, or at least revoke the tax incentives for them and tax them like large cars, which they basically are. Want to have a truck? Prove that you are doing business with it that can't be served by a car, or pay lots of taxes. Want to have a home tank? Prove that you're an army.
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>>Great... let's regulate something else in this country.
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>>The Chatter forum is starting to turn me into a Republican very quickly.
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>That's because of the way laws are made in this country - no system at all, unless you count making it as complicated and as riddled with exceptions as possible. Your regular law here doesn't apply across the board, it has to define the set it applies to, which then means it needs a set of criteria to decide whether it applies to a particular case, then it has to define who will do the checking etc etc. Instead of "any x who does y will ...", where x is a common thing defined in one of the basic laws, not a category reinvented each time.
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>The latest example I remember is the federal law banning payday loans - to military personnel. I beg your pardon? If it's bad, and should be banned, how is it somehow bad for military people only, and still quite legal for everybody else?
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>If you are incapable of making the laws short and simple, then of course you think less law is better - which is a GOP thing, they do want all our base to belong to big corp.
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>Once when gas is $10/gal, and milk is $12/gal (just think how much oil/ethanol is needed to grow the corn), read this thread again.