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This won't last. One truth of politics is that pissing off a few people is easy, pissing off everyone is hard. (That's how the rich and youth end up getting screwed all the time). If you force this on literally every single company and contractor in the country you will be losing a lot of campaign donations in the next cycle. If it comes into effect as described it will be modified/repealed within a year.


No law gets repealed. They'll just pass a new law that changes the previous one. It's sort of like CSS for Congress... cascading legislature...


Worse, it's like diffs for congress without any version control:

"Title Blah Section BlahdyBlah(c)(4) shall be amended as follows: by striking 'shall not' and replacing it with 'may, phase of the moon permitting', and by striking 'foobars' and replacing it with 'all foobars, foreign and domestic, and any bazes and quuxes appertaining thereto'."

The language of the Constitution and its amendments is wonderfully tacit and accessible. Why can't statute law be so? Oh, right, because then it would obviate many uses for lawyers. Can't have that...




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