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Due to the filibuster, most bills require 60 votes (60%) to pass the senate. It hasn’t lead to more cooperation - it’s lead to a paralyzed government that can’t
by jagraff 3y ago
Due to the filibuster, most bills require 60 votes (60%) to pass the senate. It hasn’t lead to more cooperation - it’s lead to a paralyzed government that can’t pass good laws.
- dpifke 3y agoA paralyzed government also can't pass bad laws. Considering how rarely laws are repealed, this is arguably a feature, not a bug.
- ianburrell 3y agoA paralyzed government can’t pass required laws. The budget has to be passed every year. That will never happen with supermajority. No new programs, no cuts, just confusing resolutions. The debt ceiling has to be increased occasionally and if you thought recent negotiations were bad, supermajority would be worse. A paralyzed government can’t pass good laws. All the problems in the country that would never get fixed. Current inaction is bad enough, but supermajority would never pass anything except the bland and disasters.
- MichaelZuo 3y ago> The budget has to be passed every year. That will never happen with supermajority. The budgets have been and will continued to be passed, with a sufficient amount of pork-barrel spending. Think of it as an extra cost of running a supermajority system. Plenty of countries have some kind of supermajority system in place.