| Killiana1a said: New laws are allocated in annual budgets allowing your representative or minister to tack on money (we call it pork in the USA) to their district that they tout when up for reelection. |
Actually in the Westminster parliamentary system this practice is forbidden by the rules of parliament. A you can't stick in extraneous stuff not related to the primary purpose of a bill. The only place you can put in expenditure amendments are in expenditure / appropriations bills. End even then it can't be for any old thing, you can't stick in an appropriation for a new local community hall in a bill that's setting a budget for roading projects; unless a propopsed roading project requires the demolition of a community hall and the local representative wants to have it replaced.
The US system isn't the only (or even the best - arguably) law making system in the world.
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