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Too many new laws muddle up government

A sloppy drunk in a bar turns suddenly to the well-dressed fellow on the adjacent stool — and takes the just-ordered shot of tequila out of the newcomer’s hand.

“Don’t drink that,” says the drunk. “It’s bad for you.”

Then the drunk drains the shot glass with a gulp and slurs, “Shame on you. Have you no self discipline?”

That’s a fair summary the just concluded legislative session’s impact on cities — both rude and hypocritical.

It’s not just the effrontery with which the Legislature picked the pockets of cities and towns of $47 million. One could almost swallow that — given the swoon in state revenues. Nope: It’s not the money — it’s the hypocrisy.

Here we have the most conservative group of legislators in memory, purple in the face complaining about federal mandates and calling for less government.

And what did they actually do?

Well, they introduced a near-record 1,347 new laws.

And they set out to micro-manage local government, although voters generally give local government much higher marks than either the state or federal governments.

For instance, despite the shooting of a congresswoman in Tucson, the Legislature actually adopted a law to require local government to let people bring their guns into all public buildings — including libraries, city council chambers, police stations — you name it. Towns could only ban guns in public buildings if they footed the bill for a guard, metal detector and lock box at every entrance to every public building. Thankfully, Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed that one.

The list of bizarre laws goes on for pages. That includes a law that banned any local regulation of fireworks, a requirement that cities privatize services, a ban on fire-suppression sprinklers in homes, a requirement that towns set up work programs for prisoners, a ban on photo radar and a rule that basically invalidates any “ambiguously” worded ordinance — whatever the heck that means.

Who are these people? Did we actually elect them? What on earth were we thinking?

So here’s an idea we hope the brain trust will consider before they belly up to the legislative bar again. Every proposed new law has to also repeal an existing law. Along with that they should not be able pass new spending laws until they cut out some old spending to pay for the new spending.

While we’re at it, how about a rule that a legislator can’t vote on a bill until he actually reads it and writes a one-page summary that would meet the standards of the AIMS test.

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