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Stop letting 50-year-old laws written by retired politicians run your life.
Look around at our public lands, roads, and agencies. You’ll see decaying infrastructure, skyrocketing budgets, and bureaucracies that haven’t faced real accountability in decades.
Why? Because under our current system, once a law is passed or an agency is created, it exists forever. It accumulates budget, expands its authority, and quietly sinks into laziness, corruption, and inefficiency.
The Solution: The 20-Year Rolling Sunset Amendment.
This Constitutional Amendment would establish a mandatory 20-year expiration date on all state and federal laws, regulatory agencies, and spending programs. To survive, every single law must be explicitly re-evaluated, modernized, and re-passed by the legislature.
To prevent legislative paralysis, the reset happens on a predictable, rolling cycle:
Year 1: Public Lands, Environment, and Agriculture
Year 2: Transportation and Infrastructure
Year 3: Healthcare and Social Services
Year 4: Tax Code and Financial Regulations
(…and so on across a 20-year schedule)
Revolutionize our government and destroy corpulent bureaucracies and obsolete laws: Millions of outdated regulations remain on the books simply because no politician has taken the effort to repeal them. A sunset provision turns repeal into the default setting.
Smash special interests and lobbyist grip on our government: Legacy corporations and lobbyists rely on permanent rules written decades ago to protect their monopolies. Forcing a periodic rewrite strips away entrenched loopholes. It forces a fresh look and everyone’s attention on cleaning out rot and corruption.
Force politicians to work: state and federal legislatures can no longer coast on rubber-stamping legacy budgets. They must publicly defend why an agency deserves to exist and present actual metrics of performance. They must be thinking of new ideas and new approaches.
Guarantees continuous refreshment: Technology and society change rapidly. A 20-year rolling cycle ensures our legal framework adapts to the modern era rather than remaining trapped in the past.
Objection 1: “Won’t this cause total government gridlock and chaos every year?”
The Counter:
Gridlock happens today because Congress tries to fight over everything at once while passing massive, bloated 4,000-page bills in the middle of the night. A rolling schedule does the exact opposite: it forces legislative focus. By restricting Congress to one specific domain per year (e.g., Infrastructure in Year 2, Tax Code in Year 4), lawmakers have a clear, structured calendar and a single, well-defined mandate. I also recommend that we include a policy that if the legislature cannot agree, they are all fired and lose their salaries and pensions and new elections are called immediately. Bipartisanship will skyrocket!
Objection 2: “Lobbyists will use the renewal dates to quietly kill vital public protections.”
The Counter:
Lobbyists thrive in darkness and permanence. Under the status quo, special interests write quiet exemptions into permanent law that stay hidden for half a century. A mandatory 20-year sunset forces these laws into the public spotlight. When a law’s survival requires an open, recorded floor vote, public scrutiny makes corrupt backdoor deals significantly harder to hide.
Objection 3: “How can businesses or individuals make long-term plans if laws expire?”
The Counter:
A 20-year window provides plenty of horizon for long-term investments, mortgages, and business planning. Moreover, laws and programs that work well and enjoy broad public support will easily be renewed—just with updated, modernized language. The goal isn’t to abolish good laws, but to eliminate the bad, bloated, and corrupt ones that survive purely through inertia.