Governor Joins The Crowd

The Governor wrapped up the latest session in the state legislature by signing 729 bills into law. He vetoed 232 bills. That indicates the Governor is much more in synch with the Democrats in state government than he'd like to give the impression of, as this editorial suggests.

While libertarians would be aghast at so many new laws, this is actually an improvement. Some years ago I read that some 3000 bills were introduced in the State Capitol each year, with around 1000 of them expected to become law. So, while the 729 new laws we now have might be 700 (more or less) too many, at least it's not around the one thousand that used to be the average. One bad indication, though: A larger percentage of the laws introduced were passed, which is still troubling despite the lower overall numbers.

Sure, not all new laws are bad ones, but 95% of these laws usually do, or are, one of five things:

A. Take your, or somebody else's, money

B. Restrict your, or somebody else's, freedom

C. Redundant, simply adding things on to laws already passed

D. Shouldn't be government's business in the first place

E. All of the Above

That's why I always say: Gridlock is Good. The less the state legislature gets done, the better.