A Boston North Shore engineer once told his son that you can always tell how much longer a society will last: in inverse proportion to their number of laws. Said son suggested laws should sunset; all laws should self-repeal after a set length of time, so legislatures would have to decide whether to pass new ones to replace them or that they had become irrelevant. John Stossel of Fox Business Network has said that for every law a legislator passes he must repeal ten old laws.
What do we do now? Write to our lawmakers and tell them repeal as many laws as they canUnfortunately the minute you de-regulate a corporation whose primary objective is increased profit you're soon going to find sawdust & silicone in your hamburger meat as "filler", un-tested drugs, unsafe cars(again), deplorable working conditions, unfettered destruction of the environment and eco-system, and substandard engineering, construction and materials in nearly everything
Every law that is passed, was put in place for a reason.
Lawmakers always have the option to repeal any law they want.
The process for repealing a law is the same as making new one.
I'm also not sure you would want a government gridlock to result in the legalization of murder or rape
In reality, it is much harder to get a law repealed.
Take parts of Obama Care. Most people agree that it was a mistake to tax medical equipment as that does nothing but make health care more expensive. but any effort to change it is dead in the water. You may say it is dead in the water becuase of X,Y, or Z, but the fact remains it is hard to change.
There are numerous other provisions that even supporters agree are bad. (The L.A. Times, a major proponent, argued that the bill was flawed but should be passed and amended in part. That was three years ago, and none of the bad parts - in the view of the Times - have been amended or repealed.
Also, some laws are passed for image. Many tough anti-crime laws are passed so law makers can say they are hard on crime. No one wants to author a repeal as they will be charged as weak on crime. As a result, it remains on the books.
Also, many laws have unintended consequences, but they remain on the books.
Finally, many laws these days are passed without the legislator knowing what they are passing. I would be less than three Senators knew what was in Obama Care.
They just had an amendment to the immigration bill that was a couple hundred pages. Not three sentators have read it. There were never legislative hearings on the effect of the amendments. But it may become law.
In fact, most mega-bills are passed with very few people knowing what is in them.
Too many, too complex, to burdensome.
The reality is they are rarely repealed.
I think natural law would remain, while legislation would come and go. Find the article by Sheldon Richman, "Is Edward Snowden a Lawbreaker?" to see what I'm talking about.
Meanwhile, remember the Sausage Principle: "Those who like sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made"
Truth fully, we are approaching that inverse proportion theory pretty fast!
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