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> Wouldn't a simple fix for things like this be 'only allow a new law proposal to be about a single topic and nothing else'? Define "topic" in a way that still
by ashark 11y ago
> Wouldn't a simple fix for things like this be 'only allow a new law proposal to be about a single topic and nothing else'?
Define "topic" in a way that still lets legislators write useful laws while unequivocally disallowing the kind of thing you want to try to ban, and you can probably get published in a major poli-sci or philosophy journal.
- harshreality 11y agoThe perfect is the enemy of the good. We can start with this HN thread's subject, which is a budget bill. Can we at least agree that budgets should not touch the U.S. Code? That they should be simply allocating money from the treasury to various programs and agencies previously specified by law?