My theory about so many attempts to fix problems: 1) the CEO, or government, or military bureaucracy, or company lawyers, or HR, or school committee identifies a real problem. 2) They identify a solution that picks off the low-hanging fruit and really helps. 3) They conclude that to further solve the rest of the problem, they need to double down and do whatever-it-is much harder. 3A) Especially as they have all the mechanisms and staff in place to do that now. 4.) It doesn't work, but they have mission creep "solving" other related things, now at high cost. 5.) Gee, I guess we'll just have to double down again.
We really should repeal that law. It's been widely misapplied for political purposes for years now.
Along with most of the rest of the Federal criminal code, and for largely similar reasons. There really are only a couple of Federal crimes identified in our Constitution. The rest of the "crimes" are manufactured out of whole cloth by Congress in order to fix this or that perceived problem.
This or that problem may, in fact, be real, but the States' police powers are adequate to the task for most of them, and more than adequate to characterize the problem and fix it in ways optimal for each State's citizenry. Even crimes that cross State lines generally won't need much more Federal legal involvement than specifying the frameworks within which the relevant States can work together to address the crime.
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My theory about so many attempts to fix problems: 1) the CEO, or government, or military bureaucracy, or company lawyers, or HR, or school committee identifies a real problem. 2) They identify a solution that picks off the low-hanging fruit and really helps. 3) They conclude that to further solve the rest of the problem, they need to double down and do whatever-it-is much harder. 3A) Especially as they have all the mechanisms and staff in place to do that now. 4.) It doesn't work, but they have mission creep "solving" other related things, now at high cost. 5.) Gee, I guess we'll just have to double down again.
We really should repeal that law. It's been widely misapplied for political purposes for years now.
Along with most of the rest of the Federal criminal code, and for largely similar reasons. There really are only a couple of Federal crimes identified in our Constitution. The rest of the "crimes" are manufactured out of whole cloth by Congress in order to fix this or that perceived problem.
This or that problem may, in fact, be real, but the States' police powers are adequate to the task for most of them, and more than adequate to characterize the problem and fix it in ways optimal for each State's citizenry. Even crimes that cross State lines generally won't need much more Federal legal involvement than specifying the frameworks within which the relevant States can work together to address the crime.
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