http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=2043 Missing Sleep Since June 2007 (Blogging Since 2005) Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=2043&cpage=1#comment-1021 rpl Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:02:52 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=2043#comment-1021 There is also the fact that legislation is often deliberately obfuscate. Consider the special pork for Louisiana in the health care legislation. They didn’t want to come right out and say that this was for Louisiana specifically, so they spent two pages describing Louisiana in a roundabout way. That contributes to legislative bloat, decreases transparency, and creates unintended loopholes in the law that is eventually passed.

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