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One of the wonderful things about dealing with state laws is finding the old laws still on the books that really no longer serve any purpose. For instance, Vermont has a tax clean-up bill (HB 888) that would repeal the property tax exemption for veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American wars. Nevermind that a Civil War veteran would have to be 165 years old to still be alive today (assuming that they entered the service at 18 in 1861) and Spanish-American War veterans would be 140 years old.

There are tons of little laws on the books that simply need to be cleaned up. Sometimes we’ll get those forwards (of dubious origin) that list the quirky laws that states still have, but it amazes me the the stuff that is still on the statute books.