Whoever first said, "The devil is in the details," never met a politician or took a stroll through our current bureaucracy. Politicians and their proposed new laws thrive in the vagaries of language, where words seemingly have no meaning, but weigh and strain the systems they enforce. These people delight in generalities, as they can mean anything, and they can mean nothing.
This allows them to continually pull the wool over the eyes of their constituents.
Case in point, Utah's HCR014 proposal which, on the surface, supposedly is designed to be a far more narrow public land seizure for affordable housing than Senator Mike Lee's salting of Carthage's earth attack he mounted last summer. Narrow, however, this is not, though that's how Representative and co-sponsor of this bill, Raymond Ward, describes it.
