New Laws, Nothing to trivial to ban, require or tax.... (CA, of course) - 724 new laws.....

Orange County Register ^ | 01-01-10 | Orange County Register editorial

[The Californian]

Even while groping with their multibillion dollar budget deficit, state legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger found time in 2009 to put hundreds of new laws on the books, just as they had in years past when the state wasn't going broke.

A comprehensive list would be too long to publish here. However, the new laws we feature reveal 120 legislators with too much time on their hands and too much hubris in their hearts. The governor, who could have vetoed every one, shares the blame for the 724 new edicts.

[The Californian]

While going bankrupt, we apparently have time to implement 724 new idiotic rules.....

[DennisR]

Methinks that the states should create a limit on the number of laws one can have on the books. Legislatures would then have to run the state like a business rather than a utopian subsidiary.

[EagleUSA]

Taxifornia has not had a responsible government since the seventies. Back when it was a conservative state, the model for the nation economically, in education, in demographics and RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

That has all been gone for some time now. About $30 BILLION worth of time. They have nothing to do now but support illegal aliens for votes, and spend money they do not have while adding more oppressive and confiscatory legislation and regulation to the state’s books.

Liberals — they voted for it, they got it. Sadly, we all got it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Mrs. POF and I are reading them right now to make sure we are fully compliant with the State’s new edicts to its citizens. /sarc

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A three month legislative session every two years would help solve the problem.

[The Californian]

If you found a comprehensive list, I would love to see it posted here. Do we fight or leave?

[Munson]

If I become state senator I would have a contest called there ought not to be a law. Whatever you want to strip from the state government or whatever regulation you want to strip from the government. Even If I do not agree with the author I will carry it.

We have too many laws. If legislators want to pass extra laws they should use their campaign funds to pay the government for them, after they use their first 20 bills of each session.

[freedumb2003]

>>A three month legislative session every two years would help solve the problem.<<

Too often.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Legislators get credit for bills they push through -- not for bills they block. They all want a legacy to point to; thus there's a strong bias toward creating legislation -- any legislation. There needs to be a way to recognize the achievements of legislators who prevented asinine legislation from passing.

[Navy Patriot]

I look forward to ratting my liberal neighbors out for failure to sort trash and leaving the bins out more than 24 hours.

This should be fun.

[Jeff Chandler]

too

[johniegrad]

The passage of any law should require the repeal of one in its place.

[DennisR]

Not sure that will help. Washington State does something similar to that, and the Legislature does not let that stop them! Ineptitude has no limits.

[The Californian]

to... too... two....

:)

[NormsRevenge]

Too bad Prop. 65, the prop that covers toxicity warnings as you enter buildings, doesn’t seem to cover the State Assembly and Senate or Das Kapital for that matter..

If it did, it could be declared a major BS contaminant zone and could then try and qualify for Super Fund cleanup status..

and not to worry, the desert tortoises will be just fine after their megamillion relocation to new&safer habitat.

What a pity . California is the perfect example of how legislators abuse constituents for agenda purpose driven careers. It’s like being an inside the system lobbyist. The pay is just as good these days.

[The Californian]

A couple of websites from Chuck DeVore’s website....

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=11753324

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/105/story/1251936.html?storylink=omni_popular

http://onevoicepolitics.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/voices-against-the-machine/

What a disfunctional state. We need an intervention.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Prop 65 — Yet another shining example of California brilliance in action. Can you just imagine how many hundreds of thousands of cases of cancer have been avoided in California because of the warnings that are posted on every building you enter? Maybe the state should create a “Cancers Avoided” metric to show how successful Prop 65 has been.

[Hardastarboard]

I've thought often about this. The best way to deal with this would be to have a constitutional amendment at both the state and Federal levels that says that no law shall have effect for more than ten years from the date of signing, and shall have to be reviewed and passed again or it will sunset.

As an aside, an amendment to the US Constitution stating that it must be interpreted according to the original meaning would be appropriate, but could never pass.