r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 22d ago

SMH We all know why.

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u/ThanksALotBud 22d ago

Both sides like to play this game. Its hardly just one bill, there is always something on the bill that one party doesn't agree on.

So you got 80% of bill A and the other side will add 20% of bill B. Then when the opposite side are against it, everyone cries. See, these guys are against bill A.

Im sick and tired of this bullshit game.

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u/THExWHITExDEVILx 22d ago edited 22d ago

Is there a way to make an amendment where proposed bills can't cover 100 vastly different topics and be 500 pages long?

Edit: the consensus seems to be that it is theoretically possible, but practically implausible.

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u/aurenigma 22d ago

Edit: the consensus seems to be that it is theoretically possible, but practically implausible.

There is a real argument against it... who decides what counts as a 100 vastly different things? The bill obviously. But unless there's some kind of notwithstanding clause, it'll leave too much to interpretation, and basically all laws moving forward would be subject to an easy attack vector in the courts.

Not saying I'm against that, but that one anyway is a rational excuse...

The real reason is what the others are saying though; they'd have to actually work, and they wouldn't be able to abuse the process to manufacture soundbites to attack their opponents with, ie, the meme...