They acted like they were doing something like that in Seattle, with the minimum wage increases that started a few years ago. 

However, when they didn’t get the results they wanted, they just shopped around for economists until they found some who would give them the results they wanted. 

Undisciplined

Metrics could be gamed by and expiry date - now THAT would be nice...

Signal312

It would be very cool if each new law comes with

culture

Car Seats as Contraception

k00b

It would be very cool if each new law comes with 
- a specific metric that it is trying to improve and a specific target ("by how much")
- an expiry date (if the metric doesn't hit the target by some date/year, the law is automatically revoked) 
- a list of potential unintended consequences (anything that came up in the process)
