Tuesday, July 1, 2008

The Anti-Legislation Proliferation Act of 2008

Having just received and persused my 700+ page copy of the Maine Legislative Service, containing all the tinkering our legislature has done with Maine's laws in just one session, I propose the following piece of legislation.

No new Act may be passed without the repeal of an existing Act of equal or greater length.

This will serve to:

1) Ensure that only really important crap gets made into law;
2) Weed out all the old and misguided crap on our books; and
3) Ensure that the Republic does not collapse under the weight of its own bureaucratic complexity after to many years of legislating without interruption.

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