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CMV: Omnibus Bills Should Be Illegal

It's clear as day that one of the greatest problems in American politics and threats to democracy is the way our laws are written, introduced and debated. And in reality it is an extraordinarily simple task to pinpoint one thing that could theoretically easily be changed if the political will existed and we demanded it.  

It's essentially how every bill that is proposed to the houses of Congress and in state legislatures is drafted these days, sneaking in legislation that has nothing to do with the "headline" of the bill. The "headline" of the bill is often something that is strongly emotional or controversial so that it becomes politically difficult to survive the optics of voting against it. It creates so many various points of contention that deadlock is almost unavoidable. 

Democracy would fare so much better if our representatives were forced to vote on one bill, with one focus, at a time. Is there something I'm missing about their overwhelming benefit or the necessity of having bills written this way in a democracy? Or are they just written this way to serve the political mercenaries who draft them?
gpt
You have the problem backwards.  Omnibus bills exist because more discrete bills are essentially ignored and the only way to sneak things in is by attaching it to omnibus bills that Must Pass^TM .  The most obvious example is the NDAA - the bill for funding the military is now a vehicle for every odd and end that Congress wants to sneak in.

Outlawing omnibus bills at this point would just mean that Congress literally does nothing but confirm appointees and judges.  And if you think putting them in that position will somehow compel action the way throwing someone in the deep end teaches them to swim, remember that the Freedom Caucus thought something very similar before they threw us into our current state of inaction.

They *thought* adding a poison pill rider killing Obamacare to every single bill that crossed their desks would eventually force an end to Obamacare.  They were wrong, and they managed to kill the legislative process.  Great job guys!

The actual solution is much more difficult: we need to give politicians some leeway to compromise without punishing them at the ballot box.  As it stands, they're terrified to compromise because they know their own party might primary them and the other party would rather take their seat at all costs than tolerate a moderate opponent.

They vote as they do because we punish them for doing otherwise.