[randerson]

I live in the US and while most of us know about the more serious crimes that often get prosecuted, there is a long tail of crimes that no single person could memorize. Over 60,000 pages of federal laws alone.

[bean469]

Although the claim is likely exagerated, people apparently break on average around 3 laws per day. If the government wants to lock you up for something, they can build up a case

[euroderf]

And probably 20,000 of those are carve-outs for big contributors.