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Can NC benefit from a full-time legislature? The question of how to get the NC legislature to prioritize actual needs in the state, act on them, and have no time left for mischief not only argues against a full-time position, it argues for minimizing legislative sessions in the extreme. Instead of expanding the opportunity to waste time and money, we need to treat the legislativee session much more like the dying man treats his last few minutes on earth–he gets right to the point.
Looking at the list of legislative ‘priorities’ that David Mills suggests are neglected due to time and resources, it’s clear that expansion is the wrong route. Given more time, apparently, legislators would mangle labor markets with forced above-clearing wages, and drive insurors out of the state with forced below-clearing prices. We can avoid this and other do-gooder evils by limiting them to a week in Raleigh. Once accomplished, the state could sell off the legislative buildings, perhaps for school space, and also generate business for the new civic center during the legislature’s week-long ‘convention.’ This is one of those cases in which taking longer to do the job is an all-cost, no benefit option.
