Piling Law Upon Law Leads to Disaster

In his recent book, Harry Browne wrote:

"People can be divided into two types--politically active people who want to use government to acquire what they couldn't get otherwise, and politically passive people who simply want to be left alone. When the passive people get a law passed they think will protect them from the actives, they fail to realize that it's the active people who will influence the writing of the law and the adminsitration of it. And so laws designed to stop discrimination wind up promoting discrimination; laws to reform welfare make welfare much bigger. It is the very idea that laws can solve problems that makes government bigger and bigger. The answer is to repeal laws, not pass new laws to paper over the problems created by previous laws."

Liberty A to Z, quote #420.

Politicians greatly prefer passing new laws rather than repealing old ones. Now in Virginia they have created a potential train wreck because of amendments to a stupid puritanical blue law, which could put small businesses out of commission if enforced.