Congress: The Slash and Burn Act

Day 933, 22:29 • Published in USA USA • by Candor

There’s a Proposal before Congress today, titled The Slash and Burn Act.

The bill would eliminate 13 months of miscellaneous laws from our rolls, spread out haphazardly all over our forums. It would leave alone the Constitution, the Congressional Code, and the current budget and budget procedures.



I have to be honest and say that my guttural reaction was adverse, because I believed the essence of voting for this bill means I would be voting against all of the legislation that this bill would eliminate. And without actually reading 13 months worth of legislation, how could I make an educated decision about the validity of all this legislation?



And then I got slapped, figuratively. And it hit me: I’m so used to the bureaucratic way of things in real life, I had missed the beauty of the game in. We can actually DO this without effecting much of anything.



Because it would take countless hundreds of hours of investigation and discourse to work backwards through each law, we’d like to eliminate them all in one fell swoop. And then, as time goes on, we’ll add back new and updated laws that have more relevance to us today. That’s the efficient way to do this.


(random cute kitty for no reason at all, very inefficient)

So I have approved this bill, and intend to vote in favor of its passage. Not because there isn’t a significant amount of good laws in the package, but because, to separate the wheat from the chaff, this is the most efficient way to that end.



Please join me in supporting this vote for efficiency, fellow Senators, and my fellow eAmericans. Let’s do this thing.