Re:Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law
by zhyder on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @08:53PM
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The legal code seems like ever increasing software code, except there's no incentive to refactor or delete whole swaths of it. How do we create such an incentive? Less is more here too, perhaps more so because the legal code affects everyone's ability to avoid doing anything illegal and to hold elected legislators accountable.
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Re:Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law
by cuteboy19 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:13PM
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Andrew Yang's auto-sunset laws concept does not seem so monumentally stupid now
Re:Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law
by LadyCailin on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:42AM
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It does. More things than not are better off to default to "an active law". Individual laws might benefit from auto-sunsets, but some of these already have sunsets, it's not a new concept. The general budget runs out, and relatively few things can continue to be paid out (including the national debt servicing!) automatically. But look at that shitshow every time the budget is getting close to expiring. I'm not sure having more of those shitshows every year is a good idea at all. Getting old and stupid laws off the books is indeed a noble cause, but not this way.