An interesting Founders' Quote Daily from The Patriot Post.
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense.
Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure."
-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to William Johnson, 1823)
Are you listening, Congress? Kentucky legislators have done a pretty good job with this. I have yet to see anything in the Kentucky Revised Statutes that required a lawyer to interpret. I've seen some bad laws, but they were easily understood.
Though many laws are simple enough, the regulations which sprout from them... Oy! Can you say, "Tax code?" There really is no excuse for it, except we have allowed it to happen.
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