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Why can't we put up legislation to repeal over and over until it is repealed?
by ambicapter 11mo ago
Why can't we put up legislation to repeal over and over until it is repealed?
- PeterStuer 11mo ago"Over and over" is the hint.
- soulofmischief 11mo agoPower/wealth asymmetries. The incumbent organizations are powerful, have many resources and actively work to prevent other organizations from achieving the same level if competency.
- dymk 11mo agoBecause legislation like this is a ratchet.
- pembrook 11mo agoThe number of laws/rules added vs. removed in any given year is like 100:1. New rules lead to profitable business opportunities (and future lobbies), incumbents get to entrench their positions using the new rules, and people get stockholm syndrome and just end up accepting the new normal. Modern representative democracy is Parkinson's law at work. Government is the purest form of bureaucracy and monopoly. Thus, it finds ways to grow itself every year regardless of what happens.
- JumpCrisscross 11mo ago> Why can't we put up legislation to repeal over and over until it is repealed? We can. It’s just easier to throw a wrench in a legislative process than to start it. (By design.)