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An investigation into nearly 1 million bills across all 50 US states showed a high proportion of proposed US laws being written by lobbyists. The investigation was based on computer analysis of the similarities in language used in the bills. Additionally, copycat legislation is a problem. That is where states copy-paste key parts of proposed legislation from each other, and often the original is can be traced back to lobbyists. Many tricks are used to increase acceptance of these bills such as use of deceptive titles, misleading endorsements, copied bills to override locally sourced bills, and more. The article includes several graphics showing the distribution of bad practices across the states.
A two-year investigation by USA TODAY, The Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity reveals for the first time the extent to which special interests have infiltrated state legislatures using model legislation.
USA TODAY and the Republic found at least 10,000 bills almost entirely copied from model legislation were introduced nationwide in the past eight years, and more than 2,100 of those bills were signed into law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @07:09AM (2 children)
You keep using that term.
I do not think it means what you think it means [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @07:17AM (1 child)
> " There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. "
The idea is that when the rich have more money they spend it and it trickles down to those below. How is this different?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @07:27AM
The Federal Reserve is a private entity. It does no legislating.
Setting interest rates on the bonds they sell and lending money to banks doesn't "make the well-to-do prosperous," it's a normal part of a central bank's function and role.
"Trickle Down Economics" has a very specific meaning what you're calling it ain't that.
If you want to be taken seriously, you might consider that words have meanings, and using words that don't represent what you're trying to express will not express those ideas.