Why do laws and acts expire?
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Submitted by lizpolaris on Wed, 08/01/2012 - 8:36am
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The most recent example being the Violence Against Women Act.
What's the necessity of revisiting and redebating and revoting and spending taxpayer money to re-enact laws that have already be debated and passed?
Why would a law need a time limit? After some time, it will become OK to have assault rifles back on our streets, for another example?
What's up with this bullshit? Why not make it so anyone opposed to some new law has to get it rescinded or overturned by some new law? Just asking.
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It's the politician's efforts at a perpetual motion machine.
It's a way to get votes from the less committed to an issue --
Supposedly seeing the law in action would persuade the hitherto skeptical legislators to then keep the law.
However, with the Bush tax cuts it was to bamboozle the public into thinking it was going to be a temporary tax cut. As in, when a Dem prez got into office it would never be renewed. Heh.
Buy in from skeptics would be completely useless.
Once a law is in effect, there's definitely no need to get additional legislators to vote in favor. Allowing a law to expire so that others could vote in favor? That's delusional - bills hardly pass as it is.
Clearly my question is rhetorical. It's an obvious sop to those who would otherwise never vote in favor, giving them a chance to say well it's not permanent anyway. So they can trade this vote for something else they really want....costing us all wasted time and expense in the future.
It's just an f...ing game to them.