Laws “so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood …” were cautioned against by President James Madison in Federalist Papers No.62. Considered the father of the Constitution and the author of the Bill of Rights, he added “if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.” How prophetic.
Democrats, with their fascination for “comprehensive” programs, again overreached with the complex Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as ObamaCare. The result was a 2700-page bill nobody read that now has over 10,000 pages of accompanying regulations, said to be eight times the number of pages in the Gutenberg Bible. Continue reading