This may be the definition of too much government. From today’s Connecticut Post:

Councilman Seeks Pants Crackdown
Stratford—Politicians often talk about “belt tightening,” and so, too, will Town Council members when they meet tonight. But they won’t be talking about closing the library on Saturdays or mowing the grass in the parks less frequently.
No, this time they will be taking on the sartorial issue of young men and women in their baggy pants — specifically, trousers that are worn low down, as in “I-can-see-your-behind” low down.
Town Councilman Alvin O’Neal, D-2, has proposed a town ordinance that would make it unlawful for people to wear “pants which fall below the buttocks to expose their undergarments,” with a penalty of $250.
The council will try the proposed law on for size when the Ordinance Committee meets for a public hearing on the matter at 6 p.m. in Town Hall.
“I’ve had a lot of senior citizens complain that they were tired of going to the store and seeing people with their pants down below their buttocks,” O’Neil said Friday. “It’s been done in other states, and it specifically deals with the wearing of trousers below the buttocks — you’d have to have your pants almost fully off.”
He added, “We’re not out to get plumbers whose pants creep down while they’re working on your pipes.”