The Time Tax
[Note that a reply to this message points to specific data that disproves the point in the first sentence]<p>A fundamental aspect to it is that so many lawmakers are lawyers (especially ALL of the democrats) so that the burden of paperwork seems entirely different to them that it does to other people.<p>If we had to do it all again we might have a bicameral legislature where there is a house of lawyers (who do have some qualification to write law) and a how of non-lawyers (who have some empathy with the rest of us.)