We also need guinea pigs. Federal laws where possible should be applied for one year to a group of test subjects before going national–either to federal employees (legislators first), or to DC, or to a state (maybe one state for a year, then seven, then all 57).
My proposal just a week or so ago on another blog was that no law should take effect on anyone not a member of Congress for the first year after enactment (and of course, it has to continue to apply to the members of Congress afterward).
If the people who made the law find it impossible to live under, they can repeal it before it’s released into the wild and leads to a run on tar and feathers.
I suppose the process could be abused “Distinguished colleagues, I propose that every year every citizen of the United States receive, tax free, the sum of ten million dollars”. The law just happens to apply to legislators for its first year, then they decide it’s unworkable and repeal it.
We also need guinea pigs. Federal laws where possible should be applied for one year to a group of test subjects before going national–either to federal employees (legislators first), or to DC, or to a state (maybe one state for a year, then seven, then all 57).
My proposal just a week or so ago on another blog was that no law should take effect on anyone not a member of Congress for the first year after enactment (and of course, it has to continue to apply to the members of Congress afterward).
If the people who made the law find it impossible to live under, they can repeal it before it’s released into the wild and leads to a run on tar and feathers.
I suppose the process could be abused “Distinguished colleagues, I propose that every year every citizen of the United States receive, tax free, the sum of ten million dollars”. The law just happens to apply to legislators for its first year, then they decide it’s unworkable and repeal it.