I don't find this appalling at all. It is indeed a very safe feature
of the system. Consider the alternatives. Something gets drafted
that (despite good intentions) created tremendous inequities
accidentally. Imagine the fallout if there was no way to right the
wrongs. IMHO this is a feature not a bug. Remember that it took a
conscious <G> act of Congress to take this step. They are your
elected representatives. If you don't like their decisions you have
the power to vote them out of office.
Just consider an alternative where you don't have those powers, where
decisions were taken by un-elected non-representative beings. Where
you had no immediate way to right wrongs. What would you call that:
ICANN???
Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bill Lovell wrote:
>
> > The US District Court for the District of Columbia agreed that it
> > was a tax but said that Congress could retroactively authorize it,
> > which lawmakers did later that month.
>
> This most of all, is particularly appalling....
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