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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2406508" data-attributes="member: 7240">We had this situation in British Columbia; the government elected in 2001 created the Ministry of Deregulation which implemented the Core Review Process. The purpose of Core Review was to find and repeal unnecessary laws. It turned out, at the end of the process, that it is cheaper to leave useless and silly laws on the books and not enforce them than the millions of dollars they spent paying bureaucrats to draft legislation to repeal the laws and then put it through the legislature. The Vancouver Sun legislative columnist Vaughn Palmer wrote a very funny column about this pointing out how much money was spent repealing the Weather Control Act, a law passed in the early 70s, apparently against supervillains that required one to obtain a permit before attempting to control the weather. Finding the law and all references to it and then drafting and passing the necessary acts and amendments to remove all traces of it exceeded the total amount of money that had been spent on enforcing the law in the previous 30 years. Palmer enigmatically ended his column noting that only one application had been made to control the weather in 1977 but it was turned down for unspecified reasons.</blockquote>