Comment by Terr_
6 months ago
That "suspends" should be understood as "continues to hold-hostage" / "renews as a time-bomb to screw over some other party".
6 months ago
That "suspends" should be understood as "continues to hold-hostage" / "renews as a time-bomb to screw over some other party".
That isn't the reason. They sunset in the bill so it has a lower CBO score (which calculates costs out to 10 years). If you sunset in the bill after 5 years, even if you know it will get renewed, the apparent cost goes down. Get it?
The CBO score is a perfect example of the metric becoming the measure and teaching to the test.
"ThE tAx CuT pAyS fOr ItSeLf"
Removing it would make Congress less powerful, and we can't have that now can we.
If anything it has been the opposite problem, with modern congresses having been more than happy to delegate away their powers. You might have heard the recent tariff news for example.
Modern being what? The main tariff laws in question happened 50+ years ago. The republicans in congress have been going out of their way to not interfere, but that's significantly different from creating new delegations.
Presidencies last 4-8 years, congressional careers last decades.
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How could Congress get less powerful than now?
That's how they like, more time to campaign and less work that may be impopular.
Thinking about it, the US government is going exactly the same way of the Roman republic.
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