How about we no longer pass massive omnibus bills. One bill with one law. Minimum wage? Get your own bill. Keystone? Get your own bill. Giving people back their own money (aka tax refund)? Get your own bill.
Treat it like a resume. Keep it to one to two pages.
I like the idea, but the problem is that the government has to pass a lot of "janitorial" legislation. These spending bills often include hundreds of items for different government agencies that are more or less guaranteed passes, splitting them up into their own bills would take massive amounts of time even just to do the roll call and vote on them one by one, they'd never get anything else done. Personally I would love the government to never get anything done but seems I'm a minority on that.
This is my feeling. If you can’t defend it on its own, it shouldn’t get bundled and blanket passed. The janitorial votes I think keep once necessary expenses carried over each year without justification. Just like your family’s budget, it has to be justified each month.
One page maximum. If you can't explain why it's needed in that amount of space, it's not. Bills should also be published online immediately after they're drafted and put online for all Citizens to be able to look through and read, with the phone number for your senators and reps at the bottom of the page. Leave it online for a week then it can be voted on in the House or Senate.
How about we no longer pass massive omnibus bills. One bill with one law. Minimum wage? Get your own bill. Keystone? Get your own bill. Giving people back their own money (aka tax refund)? Get your own bill.
Treat it like a resume. Keep it to one to two pages.
Amen WaxPepe.
I like the idea, but the problem is that the government has to pass a lot of "janitorial" legislation. These spending bills often include hundreds of items for different government agencies that are more or less guaranteed passes, splitting them up into their own bills would take massive amounts of time even just to do the roll call and vote on them one by one, they'd never get anything else done. Personally I would love the government to never get anything done but seems I'm a minority on that.
Perhaps we could have a process by which that can happen, but any law with too much unrelated shit in it could be struck down by the courts.
Of course that presumes a functioning court, which we don't have.
Gov already does nothing, it would be beneficial cause it would slow down all the garbage they pass
Then we need to take a look at those programs to see if they're really worth funding. I bet we can cut 90% at least.
This is my feeling. If you can’t defend it on its own, it shouldn’t get bundled and blanket passed. The janitorial votes I think keep once necessary expenses carried over each year without justification. Just like your family’s budget, it has to be justified each month.
One page maximum. If you can't explain why it's needed in that amount of space, it's not. Bills should also be published online immediately after they're drafted and put online for all Citizens to be able to look through and read, with the phone number for your senators and reps at the bottom of the page. Leave it online for a week then it can be voted on in the House or Senate.
An actual useful function of social media would be for politicians to post a copy of the legislation they vote for each time they vote. Transparency.
This makes too much sense.
But that would mean politicians would actually have to be at work for more than an hour a week!