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The U.S. Has a Problem of Too Much Law. Here's How We Solve It | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | Aug 16, 2024 at 7:15 AM EDT Updated Aug 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM EDT | Philip K. Howard

Posted on 08/20/2024 7:09:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 08/20/2024 7:09:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 08/20/2024 7:11:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Do these lefties really want anarchy?
If they want to drop everything and go full chaos, I say bring it on! Let’s go.

No, that’s not what they want. They don’t care about too much regulation or loss of freedom. What they care about is who is controlling the people. They don’t like sharing power.


3 posted on 08/20/2024 7:12:54 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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the bigger problem is the law only applies to some....


4 posted on 08/20/2024 7:13:11 AM PDT by wny
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That’s the whole idea of a socialist society. So many laws you are guilty of something everyday.

I can think of a hundred things you used to be able to do that are now against the law.


5 posted on 08/20/2024 7:14:17 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Right there in the second sentence is this howler: “Law in America is as pure as law can be—impartial…”

Maybe the author was suggesting in an ideal world.


6 posted on 08/20/2024 7:19:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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This is Newsweek? What is their angle?

Yes, there is too much law. Legislators have far too much time on their hands and far too much self-interest involved. One legislator here had a new law passed that required tag registration within two days instead of a few weeks. Why? His son was stopped for driving with an expired dealer tag and while stopped was hit by another driver and injured. I know, it does not follow but there it is, a new law because he wanted it.

7 posted on 08/20/2024 7:20:56 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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Almost all of the excesses can be traced to two sources:

a) Constitutionally dubious delegation of legislative authority to the administrative state and too many administrative agencies;

b) the legislature seeking a workaround for various courts' expansion of procedural rules (again, without legislation) by passing innumerable criminal offenses with draconian penalties

Above all at the Federal level is the utter abandonment of the Constitution's limited grant of authority to Congress over interstate commerce. Congress has literally no authority over the manufacture, sale or possession of anything unless it crosses state lines or an international boundary.

8 posted on 08/20/2024 7:22:43 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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Law has become, like everything else government administers, a jobs program. Taxpayer funded payroll, benefits, and retirement is always the result. The original intent of the program becomes secondary, or even lower.


9 posted on 08/20/2024 7:23:07 AM PDT by abb
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I find that HIPPA laws are mis-used to hinder everyone with their medical needs and communication.

My belief is the law is their to restrict the medical side from sending anything but secure communications to a patient.

I doesn’t appear to limit a patients choice to send email or communicate in any fashion a patient desires.

Sort of like: “I am sick ... can the Dr office reach out to me by phone ?

Too many medical places now use call centers that are just another wasteful tier to the patient to reach for help, advice and simply to setup an appointment.


10 posted on 08/20/2024 7:23:08 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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I tell people I vote for less government and less taxes.

I want a candidate to clean up government, starting with eliminating redundant laws and regulations. I think we need to wipe the entire slate and start anew with the Constitution.

11 posted on 08/20/2024 7:25:53 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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When you have a “law factory” in D.C. with a lot of egos wanting to justify their existence by manufacturing more laws, what do we expect?

Big government = Laws.


12 posted on 08/20/2024 7:29:31 AM PDT by fwdude
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Far too many laws yes, but the real problem is giving judges far far too much power as Gods to make new laws by twisting laws into new precedents based on personal opinions and biases. There is no base Constitutional standard anymore. They are being allowed to remove rights as they like with no accountability.


13 posted on 08/20/2024 7:31:21 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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I tell people I vote for less government and less taxes.

OH NOES!!! YOU, YOU WANT...ANARCHY!!!!! SKIES AND WATER FULL OF POLLUTION. CRIMINALS RUNNING THE STREETS (instead of in government buildings)!
14 posted on 08/20/2024 7:39:10 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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“If there is something stupid going on, there is either a tax man or a lawyer behind it. Congress is both...” - HeadOn, ca. 1990


15 posted on 08/20/2024 7:43:47 AM PDT by HeadOn (Love God. Lead your family. Be a man. )
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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” ― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome


16 posted on 08/20/2024 7:44:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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Law keeps the democrats from stealing everything


17 posted on 08/20/2024 7:46:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Yes there is too much law.

Our congressmen are mostly lawyers who love to pass new laws — how many new ones added every year? Thousands.

On the millions already written & passed.

No one can keep them all.

As someone once said, every day every American breaks laws not knowing it. Inevitable.

And when do laws ever get cancelled?


18 posted on 08/20/2024 8:05:25 AM PDT by Arlis
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None other than U.S. Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch said almost every adult in America violates at least one law, EVERY DAY, without even knowing of the law or the crime committed.

Too much law in America now equals complete lawlessness.


19 posted on 08/20/2024 8:13:24 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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LOL
20 posted on 08/20/2024 8:14:33 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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