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> The FCC under Obama had capped the amount they could charge which was promptly undone with government changes. We see this time and time again. There really

> The FCC under Obama had capped the amount they could charge which was promptly undone with government changes. We see this time and time again. There really needs to be a better protocol for this. It takes so much time and effort to make these laws, yet they can be undone in a heartbeat. It's an inherently flawed system.

mrguyorama 7y ago
These things COULD go through a functioning legislature. Functioning being the key word. When you have one party who outright states that they will stop any and all work in the legislature just because Obama is president, and the citizenry continues to re-elect that party, what else do you do? What else SHOULD you do?
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  > These things COULD go through a functioning legislature Which would just make them subject to switching when the legislative majority changed, rather than actually fundamentally changing the situation. But I'm not sure either is really a problem: otherwise, bad laws would be impervious to change, too. If you want good laws, you have to keep electing good government.
  - mrguyorama 7y ago
    True but there are multiple levels of law "inertia", and stuff passed through congress at one point carried more of it
dahfizz 7y ago
> It takes so much time and effort to make these laws, yet they can be undone in a heartbeat. The whole problem is that these were not laws. The FCC does not make laws. If it had been done through Congress, it would have been a more lasting change. But anything one president can unilaterally do, the next can unilaterally undo.