[Porsche-O-Phile]

It's the same problem in the U.S. resulting from an inherent flaw in an electorial form of government representation. It works like this:

1. Lawmakers feel constant pressure to act on things in order to avoid the appearance (or worse still, accusation by a challenger at re-election time) of being "do-nothing".

2. As such, they feel the need to sensationalize every issue possible to keep their names in the public eye and to appear "on it", passing far more legislation than is probably needed.

3. Most legislation goes into law without any provision for expiration or "sunset clauses". As such, the number of rules on the books grows and grows and grows until you get to the point we are at today - where virtually everything and anything from birth until death (inclusive) is either illegalized, regulated, overseen, restricted or taxed.

4. Problem is complicated by the ever-growing population of hand-wringing ninnies out there who want/expect the government to do things for them "because my tax dollars are paying for it!"



Sadly, even though this is crazy, I'm not sure whether the British or their former colonists (who separated from Britain for "freedom") enjoy more or fewer freedoms today. Eventually the weight of our own bureaucracy and laws will crush our society and things will need to start anew. It's only a matter of time.

It happened in the Roman Empire. Many scholars cite an over abundance of laws, lawsuits and lawyers as a catylist to the decay of order in the waning years of the Empire. History repeats.