Wolfling217

Holding onto people's IDs is a trick used for human trafficking.

People who have the ability to deal with issues honestly don't have the skills to make good politicians. So as much as I'd love to have real people in office, I don't see it happening.

Basically you're talking about putting the entire government budget on autopilot, such that Congress only has to push through changes. So things only get frozen at current levels (+inflation potentially), and only new things get frozen.

I can see it putting a soft-lock on growth items, but at that point you're breaking momentum rather than baseline ops. That would help a lot in preventing budget fights from breaking so much stuff.

I've been wondering why it's not already set up like that myself. However, the catch I can see is reprioritizing funds. Something like the $5bil they're calling for the wall - they'd have to pull money from somewhere, and they can't pull it from other places if normal ops has already spent it. So full auto would make it hard to pivot priorities.