-=> On 02-24-98  23:14, Walter Luffman did testify and affirm <=-
-=> to Robert Craft concerning Balanced Budget??? <=-
 
 RC> Better yet, how about passing legislation nullifying all
 RC> laws in 2005 or 20 years from date of passage, whichever is
 RC> later?
 WL> This could backfire. I can think of several instances when
 WL> a congressional majority would love to let "inconvenient"
 WL> laws expire.  No need to pass new legislation gutting a
 WL> valuable law that the majority-party doesn't like -- just do
 WL> nothing (except stay in power, that is) and wait for it to
 WL> wink out of existence!
Perhaps, but doing so with a number of popular laws would
quickly assure minority status to that majority.
 RC> Then the Congress could then spend all it's time reviewing
 RC> all Federal statutes and revising those to be retained IAW
 RC> two points:
 WL> I like it, but Congress could never handle the load since that
 WL> would require actually reading all those laws.  Heaven knows,
 WL> both houses can be infuriatingly slow now; just imagine the
 WL> glacial pace if lawmakers had to actually read and understand
 WL> what they're voting on!
If they *had* to read those bills, isn't it likely those
bills would quickly become more succinct and readable?
And how about flowcharting the effects of legislation and
making the flow chart part of the legislation? Too much
clarity there, hmmm?
 RC> 1) any law without citation of the Section and paragraph of
 RC> the Constitution authorising the statute is void and
 WL> Yes!!
There *was* a bill to that effect which died in committee.
 RC> 2) any law whose complexity exceeds high school reading
 RC> level is void . 
 WL> already, I can hear the cries of "Unfair!" from high school
 WL> (in some cases, even college) graduates who find that they
 WL> still can't read the laws because they never actually
 WL> learned to read at high-school level.
And reading is such a *basic* skill. One wonders about
their mastery of all those other skills dependent upon
reading skills. 
 WL> (_I_ read at a high-school level while still in elementary
 WL> school -- but that was back when teachers and parents still
 WL> cared if kids leaerned anything. Besides, I have always
 WL> enjoyed reading, unlike today's wait-for-the-home-video
 WL> generation.)
It was at age seven, while spending the summer in a cast,
that I discovered the library shelves with the books with
the rocket and atom on the spine - many by Heinlein. I've
been an addict ever since.
... A liberal's generosity is limited only by your income.
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