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You've studied law, so I'll use a legal analogy. Imagine if the only way to get a court to hear your plea were to file the correct form of action. Depending on
by myWindoonn 8y ago
You've studied law, so I'll use a legal analogy.
Imagine if the only way to get a court to hear your plea were to file the correct form of action. Depending on what you want the court to do, you might have to file a different form, and you also have to know which court to petition. As you probably know, courts following the English law tradition have simplified their forms of action (say, [0]) so that this task is much easier now than it used to be.
A common problem with this sort of program is that the bureaucratic requirements end up preventing people from successfully applying or completing paperwork which they didn't know that they needed to handle. While this might seem like a mere UX problem to you, or perhaps "a formality", I assure you that it can and does drive people mad. [1]
[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_2 https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_2
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEkUmYecnk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEkUmYecnk
- sjg007 8y agoThis is quite common across all govt services and republicans like to add extra red tape to reduce the number of people using services.
- dexterdog 8y agoAnd the other side also likes to have that red tape so they can hire more administrators and burn through the money that was supposed to actually help people.
- tracker1 8y agoThe red tape is very much a unilateral thing. And given the govt at least seems to employ more democrats, I'm not sure I agree with your assertion.
- sjg007 8y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-hates-red-tape--except-when-it-comes-to-giving-poor-people-health-care/2017/05/30/7e1e17c2-456f-11e7-a196-a1bb629f64cb_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1d984c25eada https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-hates-red-ta...
- tracker1 8y agoThe thing is both parties are involved in most of the red tape in everything. In general, I'm opposed to most state sponsored charity, I'd much rather it were mostly voluntary or unilaterally applied. This includes corporate charity and I'd also like to see IP law rolled back a bit. That's just my own POV, which really doesn't align with either D or R a lot of the time.