Laws for All,

No Exemptions, No Exceptions, No Subsidies

No bills should be allowed to come to the floor in the House or Senate that excludes any citizen in good standing from any obligation, requirement or privilege granted in the language of the law.

A bill whose merit depends on or requires exemptions, exclusions, exceptions, subsidies or tariffs, or any form of special protection, is not equitable, and on its face unjust if it must penalize or subsidize other citizens in good standing to achieve its objectives or make compliance possible.

It is a poorly crafted bill if it depends upon pages and pages of explanation to justify disadvantaging someone who has done nothing improper and advantaging someone else who has done nothing exemplary, except for only existing.

The same would be true for righting a wrong, by wronging others. Reparations cannot depend upon disadvantaging someone new or more. If you cannot repair someone without doing others more harm, then don’t make the whole of the human condition worse.

Good laws should be simply stated, and the condition requiring a remedy easily understood, and affecting all citizens (not interlopers) in some way.