No. The people who wrote the law (and handed it over to the elected politician) knows quite a lot about it. The politicians who put their face on it are mostly

No. The people who wrote the law (and handed it over to the elected politician) knows quite a lot about it. The politicians who put their face on it are mostly ignorant, if not idiots. Politicians don't generally come home in the evening and sit down to write their own bills. They rely on "experts" to do it for them. The more we rely on a central regulatory apparatus, the more essential this is. And this is where we run into problem like this, as well as regulatory capture. But the fact remains that they've got to rely on somebody with expertise, yet where can you find such people, and how much can you trust them when they're not publicly responsible (or even known).