Mandate all new laws and bills can only be a maximum of 3-5 pages, that's it. Is it really that stupid that all you need to do is limit the printer so that they can't flood you with paper trying to hide things?
This was brought on from the recent omnibus bill and if it's just because they flood the system late that they keep getting things through.
They will just bring back scrolls. After all a scroll is a single page.
There is no rule or law that someone with hostile intentions cannot exploit. The only way to stop them is to straight up stop them. Don't let them hide behind rule or laws.
Yeah, you see this all the time in tabletop gaming. Their creativity is infuriating.
TV Tropes calls them Rules Lawyers. One of the worst kinds of metagamers.
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Good luck finding a printer for scrolls, they'd have to do it by hand and we know these lazy fucks can't be bothered with that!
Though it would mean all their bills will be easier to use as toilet paper...
Nah, easy enough to solve that issue. Dot matrix printers are still a thing that are (rarely) used and are functionally like scrolls. All you would have to do would be get a company to start making the paper without the little separation section. And maybe make the printers a little faster. And if you tell a company "go ahead and make a faster dot matrix printer and you get an exclusive government contract for all printouts of all government bills" you'll have it ridiculously quickly
And I'd believe they'd go that route if we didn't specify A4 paper...
It's pathetic that all they need to do is make a process boring, tedious and complicated to get away with so much.
Simplify by saying a word limit. That’s ultimately what you’re after: a limit of the size of the document. Why limit the area it can be printed on when you can limit much more easily the scope of what can be printed?
Printing a "scroll" is actually really easy - every printer I've checked lets you manually feed paper even if it normally feeds from a tray - a useful feature if you want to print a one-off item on coloured paper, an envelope, photo paper, etc. Since the printer just has to pull the paper past the print head one row at a time, it doesn't matter how many rows there are so long as the software supports non-standard paper sizes.