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The marginal return on this is probably a lot lower than you would think. Very few people ever know the names of the laws that are passed, and when the names ar
by snowwrestler 9y ago
The marginal return on this is probably a lot lower than you would think. Very few people ever know the names of the laws that are passed, and when the names are publicized, it is to mock them at least as often as it is to somehow fool people.
The vast majority of people in the U.S. do not follow what Congress is doing. They follow what media sources say Congress is doing. And media sources tend to focus on what bills will do.
I would argue that legislation names just do not matter. Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare are among well-known government progams whose names were not even in the titles of their enacting legislation.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y agoAs a counter argument, I think the PATRIOT act might have not gotten as much popular support had it born a name more accurate to what the bill actually covered.