Every Bill Is Bad

In thinking about what happened with the tax rate bill (yes, I have been corrected, its not a tax cut bill) I realized that there seems to be a pattern to all legislation nowadays (and probably most other legislation for the last 100 years or so).

The pattern is thus: the thought start out good, for example: write a bill which will extend the current tax rates, which we’ve had for the last 9 years or so. Period. That bill, just like that, is fine. It does one thing, and it does it well.

But no one votes for that bill. In order to get that bill through, and make everyone happy, we have to add this and that, change this or that, until the new form of the bill contains more harm than good. I think this is the way almost all legislation works:

1. A good bill is introduced
2. Changes are made to ruin it
3. The bad bill gets passed
4. We get bad law

What makes the changes bad is that none of them align with the Constitution. As supposedly the supreme law of the land, not many lawmakers care to consult it when bills are re-written. Especially our esteemed “constitutional lawyer-in-chief”