Simplicity

I have been watching Congress and its wonderful desire to create bills that no one (including their authors) can understand. They simply desire to fix basic problems with complex solutions that include additions that have absolutely no relationship with the original problems. I suggest a constitutional amendment that a good English teacher would appreciate, a bill can only be voted on if the average 9th grader can understand its logic and basic implications.

I realize that lawyers dominate politics and that they are experts at creating their own rules but the basic rules of composition and clear and understandable writing should be a basic criteria of any law adopted by a democracy. If the people can't understand it, and if the people who vote on it admit publicly that they have no idea how it will work until after it is implemented (I understand that we can't know perfectly the implications of any law) it shouldn't be a law.

Simplicity should be a hallmark of democracy.