Here’s why:
…It’s for good reason that our Constitution mentions only three federal crimes (treason, piracy, and counterfeiting).
The Founders viewed the criminal sanction as a last resort, reserved for serious offenses, clearly defined, so ordinary citizens would know whether they were violating the law.
Yet over the last 40 years, an unholy alliance of big-business-hating liberals and tough-on-crime conservatives has made criminalization the first line of attack — a way to demonstrate seriousness about the social problem of the month, whether it’s corporate scandals or e-mail spam…
…There are now more than 4,000 federal crimes, spread out through some 27,000 pages of the U.S. Code. Some years ago, analysts at the Congressional Research Service tried to count the number of separate offenses on the books, and gave up, lacking the resources to get the job done. If teams of legal researchers can’t make sense of the federal criminal code, obviously, ordinary citizens don’t stand a chance…
Every now and again, in any human government, the law books get a bit cluttered and its time to revise to ensure that the laws are short and easily understood. If we’ve got 27,000 pages of US Code, then we’re about 26,500 more than we need.
One of the tasks for Sara….errrmm…I mean for the next President of the United States is to preside over a full revision of our law code. And we have to be certain that no liberal gets within 100 miles of the revision process – nothing but the most rock-ribbed conservatives leavened with libertarians should have anything to do with it.
And then we pass a constitutional amendment which requires that each bill cite constitutional authority for its existence and that all bills be 50 pages or less. Time to jackhammer the bureaucrats out of our way and the best way to do it is to cut down on the sheer volume of paper they’ve buried us under.
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