Cool bait & switch

One thing I've noticed while reading both sides of the debate--beyond the fact that liberals never seem to want to bother to actually read the bill--is that liberals are concentrating on what the bill says it will do, and conservatives are noting the incentives actually created by provisions in the text.

This is the key reason, of course, that any responsible Congressman or Senator should vote against any 1000 page bill, and why any responsible President ought to veto any bill that is so long. It is simply beyond human ability to diagram the full set of incentives that will be created in thousands of pages of legislation--never mind the impacts once those thousands of pages are codified into tens of thousands of pages of regulations.

Not a bad justification for the whole doctrine of limited government, huh?