Everyone Should Know
Laws should be easy and effective for every person to read; obfuscation and bureaucratic agencies do not help know what is being passed on the legislative floor.
It is high time that our legislators pass easy to read and understand laws; it is time for actual deliberation amongst or leaders; it is time for every citizen to feel they can trust the law making process.
It is time to make a change in Wisconsin's law making. I am a firm believer in the process of deliberation, debate, and simplicity of law making. We are so divided by party lines and so swept up in making blue sky statements that or legislators are not legislating but rather they are delegating their powers to departments and agencies; people who are then granted the force of law for the regulations they pass, even though we did not vote these said people into those positions.
Nondelegation Doctrine: It is my goal to bring back the power and idea of the nondelegation doctrine which states: one branch of government must not authorize another entity to exercise the power or function which it is constitutionally authorized to exercise itself. This theory is what gives people the power over their own laws; for if our legislators give up their law making power to other entities our consent to be governed is slowly chipped away. Let us begin the process of restoring our legislation.
Bureaucracy: Or the rule of the desk is not what I invision when I think of freedom and representation. The labyrinth of agencies and departments entrenches the everyday Wisconsinite and not for the better. We need to take back our democracy, the rule of the people, by making sure the bureaucracy is checked and used more as advisories to our elected officials rather than becoming our unelected rulers.
Responsibility: My goal is to repair the constitutional duty of our legislators with the incentive to be reelected. We need to make sure the incentive for reelection is not controlled by special interests but rather by the interests of the legislators constituents. Would we rather have a mechanic who sweeps up the spilled nails off the road so people can drive without popping a tire, or would we rather have a mechanic who goes out at night to make sure the spilled nails are all facing up so the mechanic can then make more money fixing peoples tires? The same line of thought applies to those we vote into office. We need legislators to sweep the nails, not legislators who get reelected from the solved problems they created in the first place.