Frightening

As of Thursday, 76,926 bills have been introduced in 2006. 11,048 have been enacted.

11K laws in three months?

Posted in uncategorized on April 3rd, 2006 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

Bitter B. Says:
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:48 am
Yup. That’s all 50 states and Congress. It’s from a legislative tracking service.
Marc Says:
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:06 am
Did any of them make us more free?
Ravenwood Says:
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:18 am
even spread across 50 states.. you know they don’t read all those.
Xrlq Says:
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:59 am
Did any of them make us more free?

Of course. Some repealed other laws. Some carved out exceptions to other laws, making it legal to do some (though not all) of the things the original law prohibited. Some lowered your taxes. Others – a majority, I suspect – had no noticeable impact on your freedom, one way or the other.

This is why “too many laws” line of argument is so stupid. It’s not the number of laws that matters, it’s what they do. Kings need only one law.
Heartless Libertarian Says:
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Now, how many of those are “Congratulations to the Lincoln HS football team for winning the state championship?”

State legislatures do spend a decent bit of time doing harmless junk like that.
Bitter B. Says:
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:43 pm
It may be harmless, but is that really what our government was designed for?
tgirsch Says:
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:06 pm
HL:

That type of thing is not normally counted as a law, but as some sort of “non-binding resolution.”

Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.

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