I am not an anarcho-capitalist and I believe that centralized government has many roles to play. Interfering in private commerce is not one of them.
Couldn't agree more. The question is how do we get politicians to scale back some of the unjust laws that are hitting good citizens?
This is an almost impossible battle as long as there are no real repercussions for those that suggest and implement laws that are useless/harmful for the people that they are supposed to govern.
I believe many/most policiticians introducing new laws are well meaning. They are informed about a problem, (let's say children getting affected by parents smoking with them in the car), and they immediately assume that the best way to stop it is to create a new law. One major problem here of course if that there are
so many of these well meaning people! By dramatically reducing the
size of the government, part of the problem would be solved.
However, since reducing the size of government (in a meaningful way) is an almost impossible task in most Western countries I think the best way to stop idiotic new laws from being passed would be to introduce a 5 to 10-year rule that stated the following:
For any new law to be introduced, two old useless/harmful laws have to be abolished/repealed from the books.This one simple rule would force politicians to carefully consider the effects of introducing a new law. It would be easy in the beginning because there are so many idiotic old useless laws still on the books, but as more and more new laws were introduced they would really have to balance up the benefits of any new law and if it's worth getting rid of two old laws to get it implemented.
I think that if a grassroots movement was started to force politicians to consider such a rule, it could potentially work, especially if people were informed about some of the incredibly stupid laws that are currently in effect.