Less is Clearer

        If you want someone to read and understand something “Less is clearer.”  KISS stands for Keep it Simple Stupid.   

        When you pick up a medical prescription, it often comes with many pages of information that no one ever reads.  The object is to inform the consumer about the possible consequences of using the medication.  The attorneys have “covered their ass” until they have completely defeated their purpose.

    In the Creative Financing chapter or my book, Business Fits, I address the need to keep documents simple.  I mention an investor agreement that my attorney drafted that was fourteen legal pages.  It was too long and too intimidating. I revised the agreement to one 8 ½ x 11 page document with room for signatures, and gave it back to him.  He admitted the one page revision covered everything needed and approved it. 

    Lawyers have become an integral part of out economy and government.  Common sense has been removed from the law.  The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 70% of the attorneys.  Does anyone other than me see a problem?

    There needs to be limits to the length of any bill proposed in Congress.  Members of Congress don’t even read a bill before passing it.   H.R.1 was 800 pages, Pelosi’s proposed stimulus bill 1400 pages, Obama Care bill was 2,400 pages, and the COVID Relief bill was 5,593 pages.  This is crazy. 

    I would like to see a twenty page maximum for any bill.  A ten page limit would be even better.  Think what this would achieve.  Every piece of legislation should be a single issue voted on for its own merits, with no bundling of unrelated issues.  Earmarks would have to be eliminated.  Things like the Green New Deal which were totally unrelated and never could pass on their own would be eliminated.  Legislators would actually be able read a bill before voting on it. 

    It is impossible to legislate every situation, so there would have to be some common sense to interpret the bill.  I know some of you think advocating the use of common sense in government is an oxymoron, but it would be nice.

    We must observe the Constitution and clean up the legislation that Congress passes.  If a proposed bill needs an attorney to interpret it - it should be rewritten.

 Business Fits by Terry Oliver Lee is available on Amazon as an e-book or a paperback.     http://BusinessFits.com.