Just yesterday I read somewhere that only since 1889 have licenses been required by states for certain professions, and that this trend has exploded mainly since the mid-twentieth century just before I was born, when the total was around 5% (in 1950), until now over 30% and growing are licensed occupations.
Congress now passes over 2,000 pages of rules every week (that's more than 400 pages for every work day of the week), so that you cannot do anything without being considered a "lawbreaker" in the eyes of any prosecutor/persecutor in government who decides to target you!
Why is there not a political movement to remove old laws/rules from the books that are no longer needed?
Imprisoning America
Law libraries have grown to the point where they far exceed public libraries in the number of volumes dedicated to the litigation practice in modern America.
Yet with more Americans per capita now imprisoned in America than anywhere else in the world today, we somehow perversely still think of our country as "the freest nation on earth."
"Freest" is defined as a land of free people, so having more of its populace behind bars, often for white collar victim-less "crimes," is hardly proof of that.
A "flaw" is what I call a false or faux law, the sort of thing fully informed juries ought to vote to overrule by nullifying attempted prosecutions based thereon with not guilty verdicts.
It's gotten so bad, in fact, that judges, prosecutors and juries often ignore or blatantly violate the most basic and foundational of laws (called constitutions) in their zeal to convict entirely innocent defendants (been there, and been a victim of that personally, so I know whereof I speak).
Law, Anarchy Or Freedom?
What do you think? Are there too many laws/flaws today? Are they responsible for the fact that productivity in America is now half what it was a mere decade ago, barely keeping pace with population growth?
Should our focus in this present election be on "law and order" or overthrowing constitutional protections (such as the right to bear arms, which historically has always preceded total dictatorship and mass murders in countries that have already done this; communist Russia and China), or reversing both these trends?
Shouldn't we be thinking more about being less divided/divisive politically and united in our efforts to free America from the increasing shackles of its suffocating addiction to too many flaws instead?
Please comment below to let me know what you think about all of this.