Carrying bureaucracy to whole new extreme By Scott Stroud/jstroud@express-news.net Updated 01:30 a.m., Sunday, April 24, 2011
The problem with taking a principled stand is that sometimes, in another context, it starts to look silly.
That’s what happened when Senate Republicans, long in the habit of pimping tort reform, set aside their concerns about runaway lawyering to let developers challenge a city’s determination of the value of trees — legislation one observer called the Attorney Welfare Act of 2011.
Another odd example, dealing with immigration, comes from Rep. Lyle Larson.
A consistent and eloquent advocate for smaller government, Larson, R-San Antonio, campaigned on bringing common sense to Austin. But he’s offered up a dog of a bill, HB 1553, under which any person or government entity providing a service would have to identify the citizenship of those receiving it, determine its cost, and send the tab to the person’s country of origin.
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