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Ch. 14 Fieldwork: Making the State Real

1. The state regulates the food I eat through the FDA. The FDA regulates which food and food ingredients are offered for sale, except for the food that is regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

2. It is mandatory to have health care coverage in the U.S. now because of the Affordable Care Act. I can be fined for not having coverage for a certain length of time throughout the year.

3. Police presence, particularly in Baltimore City, seems overzealous. They tend to treat people who look like me like a criminal based on their biases. In Baltimore County, it seems that they are looking for reasons to enforce any law they think they can or just harass whoever they feel like bothering because they can get away with it.

4. My residency of the state of Maryland allows me to pay less than an out of state student for school. This is beneficial for me because I can actually afford it without taking out a loan. The state is not helping me pay for my education, so this is crucial to my completion of this degree.

5.The money I pay in taxes should be helping to repair potholes and other damaged public structures, but I don’t feel like it is done at all or if it is done, it’s not done in a timely manner. There is a road in my neighborhood that has been under construction for the last six years and it is worse to travel than when they began working on it.

6. Red light cameras are inconvenient and placed close to where I live. I have already had to challenge one of the tickets that flagged me because another car should have received the ticket. Thankfully, it was thrown out, but it took time to go to court and prove my case.

7. Traffic rules, lights and signs regulate how we drive. It’s a commonality that all legal drivers share. We all have to obey the rules, lights and signs or receive a ticket and sometimes a summons to appear in court.

8. I pay the state for my water supply and trash removal. Both bills are relatively low and a small expense for clean water and the confiscation of my trash. It’s convenient for my lifestyle.

9. Parking attendants in Baltimore City are everywhere. If I am one minute late to my meter, I get a ticket. There should be a grace period. It feels like they see when you park and are waiting to give you a ticket. It’s a huge inconvenience and I’m not even sure where my fine goes or how it helps the city.

10. Right now, the state of Maryland has a mandate in place for wearing a mask in public. I’m thankful for this because it limits my chance of contracting COVID.

11. In order to marry my husband, I had to apply for a marriage license. We were asked for our birth certificates, proof of address, driver’s licenses, social security cards, etc. in order to verify our identities and validate the marriage.

12. Social Security numbers are assigned to citizens as a way to identify us and track our debt and income.

13. Whenever the mayor, governor or president calls a press conference, it interrupts the programming I am currently watching until they are done speaking. I know this is to relay important information usually, but with the current president it feels like a waste of my time. Lately, there is no pertinent information being dispersed.

14. The legal drinking age is 21 in the U.S. I believe it is to protect the general public from anyone younger than that making bad decisions that can affect the general population and the individual as well.

15. I feel like the state is absent in restructuring the healthcare system to actually benefit its citizens instead of insurance companies. Insurance is awfully expensive and sometimes still does not fully cover medicine, visits or treatments.

16. The state is afraid to police the police. There have been countless examples of corruption and misconduct that are excused or handled with kid gloves. This just allows this behavior to be deemed acceptable and to continue.

17. The public transportation system was beneficial to me at a certain point in my life, when I did not have a vehicle. It made it easier to get where I needed to go without having to wait for someone to give me a ride. It wasn’t always on time, but I made it.

18. When I go grocery shopping, there is a state tax applied to my tab that I have to pay immediately.

19. I am required to file federal and state taxes when I make over a certain amount every year. For a few years, I had to pay additional federal taxes. The last three years I owed both state and federal taxes in the amount of $15k to $21k. the price for having higher income and not enough write off.

20. I went to public school for high school. This was paid for with my parents’ tax money. Unlike my sisters who went to private school and it was paid for with my parents’ household income.

21. There have been more regulations placed on social media content lately. It is being policed when it comes to “fake news.” For example, on Twitter there is a text box placed underneath a tweet that details false information.

22. The FCC regulates the content on the radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in the U.S. and all of its territories.

23. When a child is born, an individual has to fill out a birth registration form to be submitted for a birth certificate that will serve as verification of the child’s birth, place, date, time and to whom they were born.

24. The United States Department of Labor regulates the number of hours; wage pay and promotes the safety of laborers by improving working conditions. They also provide assurance of the wellbeing of retirees and jobseekers.

25. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) promotes the safety of working conditions by providing employees with training, education and assistance.

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