AmericanSpartan
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I was looking at the astounding number of federal laws passed every single year, and it occurred to me: part of the problem is that elected officials feel the need to "do something". With millions of laws on the books, all they can do is make more and more laws, which further and further stifle us as a country.
I propose that all laws not specifically enumerated in The Constitution expire after 10 years.
This would give us
A) something for the politicians to "do" without thinking of new crap to tie us up with
B) it would mean "bad" law doesn't last for decades (NFA Act '37 for example)
C) It would mean law more closely matches the current political makeup. No ramming something through in the dead of the night which is still there years later, even though it was passed through deceit and legislative maneuvering ala ObamaCare, Social Security etc....
I was looking at the astounding number of federal laws passed every single year, and it occurred to me: part of the problem is that elected officials feel the need to "do something". With millions of laws on the books, all they can do is make more and more laws, which further and further stifle us as a country.
I propose that all laws not specifically enumerated in The Constitution expire after 10 years.
This would give us
A) something for the politicians to "do" without thinking of new crap to tie us up with
B) it would mean "bad" law doesn't last for decades (NFA Act '37 for example)
C) It would mean law more closely matches the current political makeup. No ramming something through in the dead of the night which is still there years later, even though it was passed through deceit and legislative maneuvering ala ObamaCare, Social Security etc....
I was looking at the astounding number of federal laws passed every single year, and it occurred to me: part of the problem is that elected officials feel the need to "do something". With millions of laws on the books, all they can do is make more and more laws, which further and further stifle us as a country.
I propose that all laws not specifically enumerated in The Constitution expire after 10 years.
This would give us
A) something for the politicians to "do" without thinking of new crap to tie us up with
B) it would mean "bad" law doesn't last for decades (NFA Act '37 for example)
C) It would mean law more closely matches the current political makeup. No ramming something through in the dead of the night which is still there years later, even though it was passed through deceit and legislative maneuvering ala ObamaCare, Social Security etc....
"Stifle" ??I was looking at the astounding number of federal laws passed every single year, and it occurred to me: part of the problem is that elected officials feel the need to "do something". With millions of laws on the books, all they can do is make more and more laws, which further and further stifle us
I propose that all laws not specifically enumerated in The Constitution expire after 10 years.
This would give us
A) something for the politicians to "do" without thinking of new crap to tie us up with
B) it would mean "bad" law doesn't last for decades (NFA Act '37 for example)
C) It would mean law more closely matches the current political makeup. No ramming something through in the dead of the night which is still there years later, even though it was passed through deceit and legislative maneuvering ala ObamaCare, Social Security etc....
IMO, not a good idea.I got another idea: how about for every new law created an existing law must be repealed.
Define "nothing wrong" .If there is nothing wrong with the law it should continue.
I was looking at the astounding number of federal laws passed every single year, and it occurred to me: part of the problem is that elected officials feel the need to "do something". With millions of laws on the books, all they can do is make more and more laws, which further and further stifle us as a country.
I propose that all laws not specifically enumerated in The Constitution expire after 10 years.
This would give us
A) something for the politicians to "do" without thinking of new crap to tie us up with
B) it would mean "bad" law doesn't last for decades (NFA Act '37 for example)
C) It would mean law more closely matches the current political makeup. No ramming something through in the dead of the night which is still there years later, even though it was passed through deceit and legislative maneuvering ala ObamaCare, Social Security etc....
IMO, not a good idea.
Repealing for the sake of repealing .. sick !
However, a law designed in the 1600s and written in the 1800s should be, must be reviewed.
More right wing anti-government nonsense that we should recognize for exactly what it is.
Come to think of it, I think I'd prefer to sunset POLITICIANS every ten years....
I think the idea is sound, if the Constitution is excluded. Big workload though.
Do you have any clue of the workload of redoing ALL laws every 10 years? What is that, a billion pages?
Well, I've heard this proposal before (10-20 yr span), and it is interesting. It would help keep them busy, yes. It would make it hard for bad laws and such to persist for decades. It would make it harder for highly partisan legislation to remain in place for decades, as the composition of the Congress changed.
One example that comes up often is the 18 yr old guy being on a sex offender registry for having a 15 yr old girlfriend, or the guy who got drunk at a frat party and peed behind a tree, and most people seem to agree that that person is not a threat to society and that that person should not be publicly vilified as such. Yet, no politician has a backbone and thus won't propose a bill to repeal that aspect, because if they do their opponent in the next election will vilify them as being "soft on crime" and that crap still plays well. If we had an automatic sunset provision, I think it's very likely that the sex offender registry law would not be renewed in it's present form. It would be allowed to expire and replaced with a better and more reasonable version. All the spineless politicians would be off the hook and we'd gain back some common sense.
I was looking at the astounding number of federal laws passed every single year, and it occurred to me: part of the problem is that elected officials feel the need to "do something". With millions of laws on the books, all they can do is make more and more laws, which further and further stifle us as a country.
I propose that all laws not specifically enumerated in The Constitution expire after 10 years.
This would give us
A) something for the politicians to "do" without thinking of new crap to tie us up with
B) it would mean "bad" law doesn't last for decades (NFA Act '37 for example)
C) It would mean law more closely matches the current political makeup. No ramming something through in the dead of the night which is still there years later, even though it was passed through deceit and legislative maneuvering ala ObamaCare, Social Security etc....
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