1. When legislating, everything a government says will never happen, will happen.
2. When legislating, everything a government says will happen, will never happen except by accident.
3. When legislating, everything a government says it cannot foresee, that government has already planned for.
4. Increased legislative activity is inversely proportional to the amount of liberty possible for those affected by the legislation.
5. Whenever there is a successful citizen effort to stop legislation, the same legislation will be introduced and passed under a different name.
6. Any legislation open to being perverted from its original intent will be perverted to an extent not believed possible at the time of passage.
7. Any legislation for which it is necessary to assure the citizens that it will not be a stepping stone to further loss of freedom WILL be exactly that.
8. All legislation passed for a “good cause” will then immediately be applied to other causes, against the will of the people.
9. Any legislation intended to help one group of people will be applied to harm people not in that defined group.
10. Any legislative budget shortfall for non-essential government services will be corrected either with higher taxes or with the loss of essential government services.
11. All safeguards in legislation intended to prevent abuse of the legislation simply provide guidelines for abuse of the legislation.
12. “Unintended consequences” are as essential an element of legislation as the paper on which it is printed.
13. The term “lawmaker” may always be assumed to have the adjective “bad” included; good law is almost invariably an oxymoron.
© 2008, Nathan A. Barton
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