“It would…be a signal that [the new Republican] Congress understands the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.’
“The authors of the Bill of Rights understood what today’s politicians and pundits often forget, which is that Congressional inaction is an opportunity for state or local governments, for businesses, or for voluntary organizations.”
Pipe dream? Undoubtedly, but we have to start somewhere. We have so many laws now that no one, not the police, lawyers or the courts, can claim to be anything but ignorant of the law. It’s an absolute excuse for official lawlessness and selective enforcement that needs reversing before it’s too late.
And while we’re dreaming, here’s the Congressional Reform Act.
Via Reason
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
There is that, sure. Some parliaments measure the work of their members by new laws they generate. Which is stupid, cause eventually it brings exactly the situation you describe. And the younger (and stupider) parliament members really think that to solve a problem its’ enough to create a law…
The Democrat news media is always whining about the Congress “not getting things done” when it would be better for all of us if they took long lunch breaks and played lots of golf. Unless they’d like to repeal a bunch of laws, starting with Obamacare.