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There should be a law against spamming the lawmaking process with proposals that have previously failed or are near identical to it, for a set time period. Means, you are no longer allowed to lobby for a law proposal once it has been rejected for a time period of one voting cycle.


1. The book of law should have a fixed number of words, written in stone in the constitution. Side effects:

    a) you want to pass a new law? Pick one in the book to get rid of.

    b) magically, the enforcement budget and the size of the fat leech that feeds off of it (the government) remains constant. See "The Advantage of a Dragon" by Stanislaw Lem [1]
2. A law should always (with the possible exception of those in the constitution) have an expiration date, voted with the law, with a maximum of 10 years, at which time the law should get re-voted on if it turns out it was actually useful to society.

[1] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=3725


This proposal hasn't been made before (at least in the EU at the EU level)

If you're thinking that you saw something like this last year and now again it's the same law. The EU legislative process is extremely slow (not that it's a bad thing in this case, I'd rather this not get rushed through, or even better not get through at all)

And even now it is not likely to pass before December 2023 or might even get delayed to January 2024




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