[Vitoethiche]

This comes up from time to time.. It's back again and in an unusual place. The Washington Post.

Requiring ALL laws to sunset and be re-authorized.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121007132.html

[GroosteFoessy]

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An omnibus sunset law would dislodge the status quo by requiring that every statute expire at some point, unless it is reenacted. Laws with budgetary mandates, such as subsidies, should probably have shorter fuses than broader regulatory laws, such as antitrust statutes. It would be much harder for Congress to overtly support a wasteful subsidy than to passively let it continue. Our democracy would be revitalized if there were an opportunity to debate how laws actually function. However unsatisfactory the current debate over tax cuts, at least there is a debate.