An interesting thought on statutory limitation

I’ve often thought there out to be a quota on the size of a state’s entire statutory code. Something on the order of 10-20 million characters. This would include not only the laws, but any rule or regulation created by any state agency (often published in something called an Administrative Code).

Those laws and rules would only get to be so large, and then, before anything new was added, they’d have to get rid of something else. The legislature would also be responsible for figuring out each agency’s “budget”, that is, how many characters that agency could use for its rules.

If this were in effect, maybe they’d keep only what was really important.

Commenter "Ahcuah" at theagitator.com, an American libertarian website, January 2nd, 2010