100% agree with you here. I have been making this argument for a while now. Government is asymmetrical; okay at creating laws and regulations, but terrible at removing them. We need a mechanism to address outdated and nonfunctional laws and regulations. In an upcoming piece at Risk & Progress, I wrote:
"…I have long been a critic of unidirectional government; governments appear only capable of creating new laws and regulations and are poorly equipped to remove or edit older ones. Thus, I also envision a third branch, very loosely modeled after the Nomothetai in ancient Athens, which was tasked with reviewing and editing law. Via this third branch, anyone could challenge an existing law, take it before a ‘court’ of appointed experts and laymen, and make their case as to why it should be abolished or revised. The third branch could make the changes itself or punt it back to the legislature with recommendations…This helps prevent the gradual buildup of “non-functional” laws and regulations that, stifle growth and prosperity."
Perhaps better would be that any new law has to repeal two old laws. After a couple of generations there would be only the minimum number of laws required for a sane society. People would, because they could, choose to get rid of laws that empower the already powerful capital interests.
New laws should be petitioned by people and not the lobby industry.
Each law should fir on a folded sheet of paper, 4 pages and be open to public who can lobby their representatives.
Lastly to make sure the representatives will advance the will of the people make it easier to leave office, Any person can at any time raise a vote of no confidence in any official for a modest admin fee of say $100 and co-signers in the number of say 10% of the votes that the representative received to reach office. If in the vote the representative receives a majority of OUT votes that is more than they received to enter office they are out on their ear. Politicians should be scared of the people so they do what the people ask of them. While they are scared of their campaign funders/lobby industry they will be beholden to them.
100% agree with you here. I have been making this argument for a while now. Government is asymmetrical; okay at creating laws and regulations, but terrible at removing them. We need a mechanism to address outdated and nonfunctional laws and regulations. In an upcoming piece at Risk & Progress, I wrote:
"…I have long been a critic of unidirectional government; governments appear only capable of creating new laws and regulations and are poorly equipped to remove or edit older ones. Thus, I also envision a third branch, very loosely modeled after the Nomothetai in ancient Athens, which was tasked with reviewing and editing law. Via this third branch, anyone could challenge an existing law, take it before a ‘court’ of appointed experts and laymen, and make their case as to why it should be abolished or revised. The third branch could make the changes itself or punt it back to the legislature with recommendations…This helps prevent the gradual buildup of “non-functional” laws and regulations that, stifle growth and prosperity."
Perhaps better would be that any new law has to repeal two old laws. After a couple of generations there would be only the minimum number of laws required for a sane society. People would, because they could, choose to get rid of laws that empower the already powerful capital interests.
New laws should be petitioned by people and not the lobby industry.
Each law should fir on a folded sheet of paper, 4 pages and be open to public who can lobby their representatives.
Lastly to make sure the representatives will advance the will of the people make it easier to leave office, Any person can at any time raise a vote of no confidence in any official for a modest admin fee of say $100 and co-signers in the number of say 10% of the votes that the representative received to reach office. If in the vote the representative receives a majority of OUT votes that is more than they received to enter office they are out on their ear. Politicians should be scared of the people so they do what the people ask of them. While they are scared of their campaign funders/lobby industry they will be beholden to them.