I'm pretty staunchly against bills that cannot be read and understood by those voting on it. If that means breaking the bills down into smaller pieces, so be it.
The stimulus was a pork bill. And I'd wager that none of those who voted for it read more than a couple pages that pertained to their own pork. They have a staff, I understand, but guess what, I bet no one on each critter's staff read the entire bill and understood it, either. Ditto healthcare bill, etc, ad nauseum.
Rushing bills that don't take effect immediately is nothing more than politics. It's trying to slip something over on us---regardless of which side does it. A emergency bill that takes effect in the next few weeks? I'm fine with that, but such a bill should be short enough to read. Proper readin is important, since legally, semantics matters. One wrong wording can bite everyone in the butt.
If a politician says that something needs to be done quickly, that's a powerful argument to vote against it, whatever it is.
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