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CMV, When bills are proposed in congress (state and federal levels) they should be atomic and singular, containing only the one law at a time.

It astounds me how the US system "works." Basically a group of people want to pass a particular law, but other people want another completely unrelated thing passed, so they attach them together to be voted on together. Many times the laws themselves are so long and convoluted that the senators and reps voting on them don't have time to read or digest them before voting on them... that is if they vote on them at all since many abstain or are off campaigning.  

Why is the current system better for society as a whole than a one law, one vote? Wouldn't removing the BS and politics from the system benefit society as a whole?  And don't give me BS about not having time... they already don't have time to read the bills in front of them, and they take hella long vacations and IF they are even in session, many are not present and campaigning for the next cycle.
gpt
Most of the time when this is done, it is done to gain support for the larger "main" item in the bill from congresspeople or senators who otherwise would not support it or who are on the fence.

If Congress needs 50.1% of the vote to pass a bill, and they only have 48%. They can add something like "$2M to fix a bridge in Iowa" and get the support from those Congresspeople who now don't have to pay for the bridge with state tax dollars and they can go back to Iowa and say "look what we did for you!"

Now, whether or not you believe this is morally right is another question. But let's say that first main bill benefited a large part of the country but it wouldn't have passed without the support of those Iowa Congresspeople. Maybe those Congresspeople promised not to vote for that kind of bill and in order to maintain their campaign promises to their constituency, they need to go back with a big "this is why we did it, don't punish us, look at the shiny new bridge we got you that will cost you nothing."