| Show THE PLAGUE OF LAWS wiliiam VilI iam P helm jr who specializes in government statistics in an article in the american mercury entitled the plague of laws declares that the total number of laws theoretically operative in the united states including city county state and national ten million and that the time has comac for a new justinian to junk the whole complicated mess and to substitute a simple code like that of the roman lawgiver in 1925 no than new laws appeared on the statute books of the 48 states fifteen typical american cities added laws in one year and there rc some important towns and cities and all of them are busy grinding out ordinances state legislatures will this year grind out thousands ot additional laws commenting on the situation the salem ore gon capital journal says the growth of bureaucracy can be traced directly to the extension of the law and bureaucracy grow by multiplication of laws they supplement each other the ampre laws the more bureaucrats to enforce them the more bureaucrats the more laws to increase and extend their power until we have reached the point where the whole top heavy tern is breaking down and the law becomes a joke it can be added that practically every new law increases taxes and one of the best ways to bring about tax reduction is to stop passing new laws |
