One thing that I think hurts this country is the amount of legislation that is passed every year. (roughly 14,000 bills submitted per year from 1947-2000)
Granted, some laws are very helpful to our society. On the other hand, I think many laws are old, outdated, or otherwise hurtful.
Therefore, I would add an amendment to the constitution requiring all laws to have sunset provisions of no longer than 5 years. (This would include all levels of legislature from city ordinances all the way to federal criminal law.)
IMHO, this would go a long way in cleaning up the complicated and enormous amount of laws that currently afflict this country.
Furthermore, it would force Congress to deal with many issues that they would rather ignore (i.e. Social Security).
Thirdly, it would hopefully calm the zealotry in which our esteemed "representatives" constantly create new laws that we citizens must follow.
(Hopping of the soap-box...)
Now, I don't know about everyone else, but I'd like to hear what RL would do...
Come on RL, you started this thread, let's see what you've got.
