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I can see an issue. Someone makes a bill called the Save Puppies Act with terrible stuff in it and everyone votes for it without reading the bill. No one has ti
by 58028641 3y ago
I can see an issue. Someone makes a bill called the Save Puppies Act with terrible stuff in it and everyone votes for it without reading the bill. No one has time to read every bill. Potentially it could be done with a few bills during presidential election years.
- nunuvit 3y agoThis already happens quite a bit with the referendums required to amend state constitutions in the US. Maybe not quite as nefarious, but they sneak in unpopular stuff, and the ballot summaries don't mention those parts.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoBills should have to be summarized like scientific papers do in the abstract. It can be boiled down to its substantive parts but the whole nature of the game (particularly with those omnibus-style bills) is to obscure included and unrelated provisions desired by lobbyists and establishment politicians who are earning their next paycheque.