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Sunsets don't have any effect in practice. All sorts of US laws have sunset provisions, and unless they've become somehow politically contentious they get rene
by gozur88 11y ago
Sunsets don't have any effect in practice. All sorts of US laws have sunset provisions, and unless they've become somehow politically contentious they get renewed without debate every year.
- panic 11y agoAt least the legislature has to spend some time renewing them. Everyone bears the cost of having to know and follow all the laws; lawmakers having to spend the time to renew every law would be a better alignment of incentives.
- gozur88 11y agoExcept that it's all rolled into one bill. Which they haven't read (they don't actually read any of the bills). If they spend more than about ten minutes on the whole exercise I'd be shocked.
- panic 11y agoYeah, you'd have to combine it with a length limit on the text of bills.
- drdeca 11y agoRequire that one of the people voting reads the entirety of the bill aloud in front of the whole group before 'yes' votes are valid? Doesn't make the length boundary sharp, but still provides a limit of sorts. Less restrictive than the one in Gulliver's Travels! edit: whoops someone already said this
- drchaos 11y ago> they get renewed without debate every year That should simply not be allowed. It's the legislative equivalent of handing out an inspection sticker without actually inspecting the car.
- nathan_long 11y agoYep. Idea: congress shouldn't be able to pass a law without reading every word of it aloud. If you weren't there to listen, you can't vote.