Sunday, November 22, 2009
Government at Work - Writing legislation
The complicated language that is written into legislation is outrageous.
Being that it COULD be much simpler, it can ONLY be intended to purposefully obfuscate details and consequences.
After you read the referenced article see if you agree; and, if you're not convinced, just try to imagine references that you might rely on written in this fashion...
Being that it COULD be much simpler, it can ONLY be intended to purposefully obfuscate details and consequences.
After you read the referenced article see if you agree; and, if you're not convinced, just try to imagine references that you might rely on written in this fashion...
The details are in Jonathan Karl's post on the ABCnews.com blog:
"On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for 'certain states recovering from a major disaster.'
The section spends two pages defining which 'states' would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that 'during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.' "
