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    "It should be made a law that Congress (or for that
    matter, any law-passing authority, this problem exists
    not just in the US), should before passing any law
    evaluate its impact and interference with already
    existing law."
Ironically, that law would have so many impacts on so many other laws, it would be impossible to evaluate them all.

It's the halting problem for lawyers. :)



It's already the law...Congress already has several agencies that deal with these sorts of analyses. The most famous are the Congressional Budget Office and the Congressional Research Service. They deal with this silliness all the time, so they're actually quite good at it.


Might get them to repeal some useless laws and trim down the laws they want to pass so they don't impact so much.

I don't think it would be that bad overall once they realize the quagmire their current methodology really means.




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