AARP rent-seeking

Yes it's reasonable to conjecture that the length correlates with rent-seeking. I think it's outrageous that any piece of legislation needs to be a thousand pages long in the first place, and even more outrageous that anyone would dare vote in favor of a bill they haven't had time to properly read. This is a looming disaster.

How's about we stop forcing kids (and their employers) to pay for their parents' Viagra and Prozac and start creating jobs that pay real money?

The baby boomers are the wealthiest generation ever to retire. Why the hell should I have to pay for their drugs? We need a HARD CORE means test, not the BS that is included in this thing.

A study in the 1970s accurately conjectured that Congressmen, Senators, and Legislators read less than Ten percent of the legislation on which they vote. Congressional aides produce summaries of less than a paragraph, on which Votes are cast. Most often, these Aides have read only a fraction of the legislation themselves.

There is huge Rent-seeking in all legisation. I think it was Jefferson who warned of Congress writing books as legislation. This is how County musuems get funded in Defense bills, and Business writeoffs get introduced into Health bills. I would guess there is a provision in the Proscription bill somewhere, stating senior Social Security administrators should get a raise. It is known Drug companies want blanket immunity from liability for poorly-tested drugs sent to the market.

I had better quit, before Someone begins to think I write legislative bills. lgl

We need a law...any law that can't be completely displayed on a single powerpoint slide is too complicated and automatically defeated.

Laws that can be powerpoint slides? It's never going to happen. I suppose the lawyers, though, would like to be able to read economics without having to know higher math....so there's a small measure of revenge.

I bet if someone were to write a gag bill that long revoking like 3 different bill of rights amendments at once, it'd pass.

Oh wait, it did, Patriot Act...:^(

The size of spending legislation correlates better with the potential size of added federal debt, and in this case future payroll tax increases.

Adding a new entitlement might be good politics in triangulating against the Democrats, but this is nothing but an expensive entitlement that will snowball.

Legislators need artificial intelligence software for analysing legislation.

"[I]f the AARP earns income from retirees, then they would regard any reduction in the size of the retired population as a threat."

Arnold, the AARP is no longer an association of retired persons: it is a association of adults over the age of 50, large numbers of whom are still working.

AARP *never was* an "association" of retired
persons. It is, and always was, a privately-
held business set up to earn commissions selling
insurance (and other things) to older Americans.
An AARP "membership" is like a Costco membership...
just a sweet-sounding word for "Modern Maturity
magazine subscriber."

It still astonishes me that the media reports on
AARP as if it were the IEEE or AAAS or NRA. (Yes,
those membership organizations also lobby and
also take commissions on services sold to their
members/magazine-subscribers. But at least they
are membership organizations.)