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by jjav 1 day ago
> There are so many laws on the books that reviewing all of them every year is completely impossible.

Oh well, so maybe there are too many laws, let's simplify.

That is only partially tongue in cheek.

I'd say if there is no time to review and vote to keep or cancel a law, it is automatically cancelled. If it was important maybe someone will reintroduce the legislation later. Fewer laws are better, we should consolidate around laws with the most bipartisan support and scrap the rest.

But also in how I envision the system, if a law is repeatedely affirmed year after year, it should receive an increasing TTL. The formula should also have some modifier for which party controls legislature at the time. So if some law is reaffirmed multiple times under legislatures controlled by different parties, it's probably a fairly uncontroversial law, so we can increase the refresh rate to 3 or 5 years (avoid multiples of 4 since that is election cycle). Over time, the TTL can increase and perhaps there should be a way to eventually promote it to a permanent law, but that should have a very very high bar.

One can dream.. of course it won't happen, so back to your country controlled by a few oligarchs grifting for their personal profit.