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How does this deal with issues where a particular regulation needs funding to have any force (such as funding a regulatory agency to enforce the regulation) and
by chongli 4y ago
How does this deal with issues where a particular regulation needs funding to have any force (such as funding a regulatory agency to enforce the regulation) and opponents of the regulation might choose to defund the agency (by removing its funding in the budget) to prevent enforcement?
- phpisthebest 4y agoDo you have any experience with the legislative process at all? Because that is pretty common tool (defunding a program or agency) used today and has no relevance to the single subject rule
- chongli 4y ago"An appropriations bill shall not contain any general legislation or change of existing law provision” If you can defund an agency to prevent the enforcement of a law, you can effectively use a budget bill to change an existing law provision, even without changing the law itself. This defeats the spirit of that statement above.
- phpisthebest 4y agoI think you are stretching now, further nothing is ever perfect, the question is would Single Subject bills be better or worse then the current system By all objective measure they would be better for public policy