Congress has created an average of 50 new crimes per year for the past decade.
The media is fond of calling out our “do-nothing Congress.” Indeed, our national lawmakers’ last term was one of the least productive in history.
But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
According to author John Whitehead, Congress has created, on average, 50 new crimes per year for the past decade. Not 50 new laws. Fifty new crimes.