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Originally Posted by ERD50
This is the main reason I am on such a "less government" kick.
All Congress bashing aside, even if every Congressperson was a certified genius, they simply cannot have expertise in all the areas that they are now involved in.
Just look at the detail level of the bills in Congress. It is insane. T-Al pointed out a while back (this was a CA bill, but the idea holds), about how the bill banning incandescent bulbs had exceptions for all these specific types of bulbs, right down to the number of standoffs holding the filament, technical restrictions on the filament, bulb base size, etc, etc, etc.
How many CA congress members are conversant in light bulb design? Why are they voting on these issues? Why are they taking the time to get them written into legalese and debate them? Insane.
BTW, that does not mean I think they should ignore important issues, but I think any laws should address issues at a high level, not the micro-management level. In the example of the incandescent light bulb ban - if it really is in the "common good" for people to conserve electricity, raise the taxes on it, and let the free market figure out what kind of light bulbs to design, plus a million other ideas that could save electricity - more than any legislatures could come up with in a law.
-ERD50
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Amen. All this type of lawmaking does is to allow all kinds of different parties get their own little agendas served and result in untold numbers of unintended consequences. It's absurd and makes things endlessly complicated and almost impossible to understand; for congress and average citizens.
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