Jim Hlavac
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Domestic Affairs
There are too many laws, to the point where no one can give a clear answer to any
one legal question. Our puritan streak has remained in the law, but our libertine
proclivities leads to people doing anything and everything.
Criminal law, being so extensive, virtually everyone has become a criminal in
something or the other. With business law and family law, the same sort of
complexity and confusion and even contradiction have built up naturally over time.
The boat has been in the water so long that the barnacles have grown thick and
we're afraid to lift the boat to see what's been happening and to clean the mess out.
What we need is a period of no new laws, only eliminating, fine tuning, laws that
have proved absurd, unworkable, outdated, or against the principles of freedom.
There is nothing wrong in trying to write laws to address a problem, but just because
the law is written one year doesn't mean that it will stay relevant or good, or that we
didn't find some unintended consequence of the law that would require it to be
changed.
The Democrats and Republicans merely tinker at the edges and add this or that
sub-component, or combine two components -- but somehow there are never any
less components. They tinker with the budgets, raising by a few billion this year and
decreasing by a few billion a few years later. The general trend is always more
components and more budget -- but it is a slow incremental growth that just seems
so natural. And after all, this has been the way it's been done for the past 150
years. We are loath to question it too much.
The most socialist among us feel the problems we face can be dealt with by
adding more components and bigger components. They are, though, on the losing
path. The world has pretty much accepted the idea that socialism in whatever form
or manifestation does not work. Even now, the last bastions of socialism are
dismantling themselves or their leaders are holding a rear guard action in retreat as
their systems coming flying apart due to the technological wonders of the information
age.
But when you start to pull apart the components and look at each individually
you can indeed begin to assess which are folly, which can be done in a better way,
which need to be strengthened in some way or another. And that's what I aim to do
right here:
one legal question. Our puritan streak has remained in the law, but our libertine
proclivities leads to people doing anything and everything.
Criminal law, being so extensive, virtually everyone has become a criminal in
something or the other. With business law and family law, the same sort of
complexity and confusion and even contradiction have built up naturally over time.
The boat has been in the water so long that the barnacles have grown thick and
we're afraid to lift the boat to see what's been happening and to clean the mess out.
What we need is a period of no new laws, only eliminating, fine tuning, laws that
have proved absurd, unworkable, outdated, or against the principles of freedom.
There is nothing wrong in trying to write laws to address a problem, but just because
the law is written one year doesn't mean that it will stay relevant or good, or that we
didn't find some unintended consequence of the law that would require it to be
changed.
The Democrats and Republicans merely tinker at the edges and add this or that
sub-component, or combine two components -- but somehow there are never any
less components. They tinker with the budgets, raising by a few billion this year and
decreasing by a few billion a few years later. The general trend is always more
components and more budget -- but it is a slow incremental growth that just seems
so natural. And after all, this has been the way it's been done for the past 150
years. We are loath to question it too much.
The most socialist among us feel the problems we face can be dealt with by
adding more components and bigger components. They are, though, on the losing
path. The world has pretty much accepted the idea that socialism in whatever form
or manifestation does not work. Even now, the last bastions of socialism are
dismantling themselves or their leaders are holding a rear guard action in retreat as
their systems coming flying apart due to the technological wonders of the information
age.
But when you start to pull apart the components and look at each individually
you can indeed begin to assess which are folly, which can be done in a better way,
which need to be strengthened in some way or another. And that's what I aim to do
right here:
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