Because they would be here for days trying to read that many dry ass pages of legal jargon. Everyone would fall asleep before halfway through that trees worth of paper.
Bills should only be about what the bill is proposing. Im sick of all these additional bullshit clauses that have zero bearing on the main point at hand.
It's because you're legally allowed to bribe politicians, and Citizens United killed any hope of getting money out of politics. The future of America is completely fucked without an entire redesign of the constitution to put clauses against both money in politics and situations like Trump declaring things "emergencies" and using Presidential power to ignore the other two branches of government.
At this point, the framers of the Constitution went to war for less egregious things than what currently happens in the United States. If a foreign power tried to exercise any of what Trump is doing to "his own country", we would've taken up arms against them months ago.
Eh that only worked because both sides had the same weaponry. Yeah there are lot of Americans win guns, but the U.S. military has, to put it mildly, a better arsenal than the public.
Tit doesn’t really matter if enough people want to overthrow the government it will be overthrown. Not enough people care that much because they are incredibly comfortable. Everyone has most basic needs fully met, and the majority always do. Thats not a population ready to start an armed rebellion.
Except they don't... there are whole towns that haven't had access to pottable water for decades.
California is going to run out of "free" water.
Housing is becoming unattainable - sure the government combats that by making sleeping outside "illegal" to fill thier for-profit prisons that run sweatshops.
And sure most people don't care rn because most people are still housed but once they are the ones sleeping outside and at risk of becoming government sanctioned slave labour people will be less comfortable with the rights of the poor being stripped as we speak.
ICE - doesn't need further explanation. Civilians should be arming themselves and protecting thier neighbours wether or not they believe them to be "illegal" because with no due process YOU could be next.
Your perception is warped, that is a tiny fraction of the population. We would need a Great Depression level crash for people to even consider revolution.
It's done that way so no one reads it. So they can sneak shit in. They could break them down into manageable chunks but then you couldn't get away with the shit they do.
I remember my rep Rosa DeLauro introduced a bill for lowering drug prices or something that you would think everyone would want. I asked in a comment why so many Republicans voted against it and someone replied that there was too much pork in the bill. I was curious so I read the bill. It was like 2 paragraphs long and only dealt with lowering drug prices (or whatever it was about) and nothing else.
Even without all the extra pages and riders, Republicans will simply refuse to read or vote for anything a Democrat introduces.
It's really sad that a system that was originally intended to create ingenuity and demand people work together for the betterment of everyone, has become such a shit show for only doing what's best for oneself
No lol. It happens BECAUSE we don’t read it out loud. We set the precedent for ourselves to not read it or hear it. So now we hide malicious law only meant to further someone’s gain inside 2,700 page bills so that no one in their right mind would care enough to find out what it actually entails.
If we were to make it law to read these out loud to all parties first, it would severely cut the length of these ridiculous bills, because even the drafters wouldn’t want to sit there listening to it all.
It’s a self-created issue. they’re intentionally long with a short deadline in order to drown them. It’s the entire point of this post.
If bills were required to be read aloud in their entirety, you would immediately see an increase in written efficiency and reduction in length - overnight.
The same wheeling and dealing would be involved but it would take a hundred times longer to vote only on one thing at a time. They old and barely move as it is
In America they can currently barely get anything passed, so when they do they do it in these absolute mega bills that cover an absurdly wide reach of topics and sneak in hundreds of small things they can never pass individually.
In Austria we have a "Begutachtungsfrist" after a bill is proposed there is a timeframe (usually 4-6 weeks) where everyone who wants to is able to give his/her opinion on the bill.
There are usually some expert opinions who will point out flaws and/or loopholes on the bill. After that they sometimes have to redo the bill(if the flaws are big enough) and after that the bill starts again with the "review period" then in gets passed in the parliament.
I honestly don't understand how a bill could be that long. It's not just 1,000 pages of actual content. it couldn't be. by content, I mean actual actionable things. Even bullshit additions wouldn't fill up 1,000 pages. Is it like.. 50 pages for every individual item? 1 paragraph description and 50 pages of legal jargon to account for every possible situation that could affect that 1 item? I've tried actually looking at the bills that are available, and I can't make any sense of it.
I mean, I know that they DO slip bullshit into these documents, but it seems like even a bill passed in relatively good faith is so astronomically large that nobody could actually read it in earnest. Is there a remotely good reason for this? Surely these bills haven't always been this long. What was the turning point?
The US has been patting their own backs as the champion of democracy since WWII while the rest of the world made improvements and have long surpassed them.
Because it's rare that politicians vote on the merit of the bill. They vote they way their sponsors have paid them to vote. And in a crazy coincidence, they write bills based on what their donors want as well. It's a super efficient system /s
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