In a perfect world it should be easier to clean up a mess than to make it in the first place. Such logic should certainly apply to the rules, regulations, and taxes that burden us all; sometimes unnecessarily.

To accomplish this, the threshold to create a tax or regulation should be greater than that required to eliminate it. A supermajority would be required to pass and a simple majority to repeal.

One argument against such an arrangement is that a great deal of effort could go into creating an expansive regulatory scheme only to see it wiped out with relative ease. In reality though, that’s the intended purpose. If such a scheme were actually working it would be extremely difficult to even get a simple majority to repeal it.

It would be up to a given jurisdiction to define exactly what constitutes a supermajority. The important thing being that the difference exists in the first place.