(03-30-2023, 09:09 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-30-2023, 08:53 PM)copycat Wrote: As I mentioned funding of a bill is separated from the bill itself and could pose a problem.  This is a different scenario though.  First of all this was a state constitutional amendment not a federal bill.  Secondly if we are going to adopt this concept we should hammer out how funding would be treated.  Definitely a fine line between the two however this is way out of the boundaries of what my suggestion is attempting to eliminate.

At the state level we have so many dedicated accounts with so many revenue streams feeding them, that it might be practical to try to make a one topic rule for out legislature, with the one exception being a bill that raises dedicated funds and also designates how to spend them.  But at the federal level there are fewer dedicated funds.  And at both levels most of the spending is out of the general fund, and that's where most of the potentially corrupt deals are made.