Plural • Solution #9 for Simple Tax Initiative: Pre-filled instead of filled out
Solution #9
It is intended that laws no longer be written by lawyers, but by ordinary people. Lawyers can then correct the spelling and sentence structure. Each law should be valid for only 10 years. If it is not confirmed by the parliament after that, it expires.
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A. K.
2 days ago
"Laws should no longer be written by jurists, but by ordinary people. Jurists can then still correct spelling and sentence structure. Each law should be valid for only 10 years. If it is not confirmed by parliament afterwards, it lapses."
Sorry, I find that nonsense. Jurists are also ordinary people. And who wrote it doesn’t matter; it may be in legal language as long as there is a "translation" in plain German that matches 1:1 and 100 %. And the 10‑year deadline I think is even worse. Do you know how many laws exist? Those "revisions" could not be handled.
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A. K.
2 days ago
@Jürg Z. sorry, but that is simply nonsense. This blanket claim about the alleged “80 %” misses reality: Swiss legislation shows that the number of federal statutes has been extremely stable for decades. The increase is mainly in ordinances and international treaties to react to a digitalised world; this is not done by bored jurists but required by modern reality.
A 10‑year deadline would not relieve parliament but would cripple it completely. If thousands of laws and paragraphs expired simultaneously and had to be renegotiated in an emergency procedure, there would be only stalemate and total legal chaos. Anyone who wants to cut bureaucracy should focus on lean administrative processes, not put the foundation of our legal system on a ten‑year scrap heap.
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J. Z.Author
2 days ago
Exactly, that is the problem. 80 % of our laws were created in the last 20 years. If this continues, we will drown in them. Then parliament must deal with the existing ones instead of constantly generating new ones.