Quotation of the Day
4th March 2025
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
Sound familiar?
We have too many Federal laws, and the reason for that is that the Federal government has been trying to micromanage American society since FDR (who when he wasn’t working for the government, dabbled in being a lawyer).
I’m sure I’ve told this story before, but I’ll tell it again: On the first day of my Tax class in law school, the professor walked in carrying a stack of paper about two feet high and set it on his desk. He picked up the top sheet and showed it to us. “This tells you what you have to pay taxes on.” He put his hand on the remainder of the stack. “This tells you how to avoid paying those taxes.” He patted the stack and said, “This is what we teach here.”