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I think the rule should be that the people who vote against it get to collectively vote on a name. This would be a pretty cool game theory case study, actually.


Then you'd end up with every bill having a name like "The Job Killing Health Care Bill". It would just be biased from the other side. That might be good in this case, but when a bill you want to pass comes along, and gets renamed into the "FCC is taking over your internet and will burn sites like Hitler burned books", it may seem less attractive.


Not exactly. You'd get logrolling--the worse the name, the fewer votes it would get, meaning that former voters can tone down the name.

What you'd actually get is accuracy, like the "Necessary expenditures with a side of pork act" or the "Handout to lobbyists that will also probably protect consumers, but not necessarily enough to justify the higher costs" bill.




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