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The Inability to Pass Daylight Saving Time Legislation Shows HOW Dysfunctional Our Government Really Is

AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File

In case you are unaware, Dayling Saving Time starts tomorrow. We spring ahead -- which is a nice way of saying we lose a precious hour of sleep on the weekend.

It seems few people like DST, would like to see it or Standard Time made the national norm, and do away with the bi-annual clock changes.

It also seems like every year someone puts forth a bill to do exactly that. This year, it's Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

The Hill has more:

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) renewed his push to make daylight saving time permanent ahead of this week’s time change.

Rubio’s bill initially passed with unanimous consent in the Senate in March 2022 before later hitting a brick wall in the House. It was reintroduced last year by Rubio as the Sunshine Protection Act of 2023.

There's argument over whether or not to keep DST permanent or keep Standard Time permanent. But the main consensus is: DO SOMETHING.

We agree.

You know how hard it is to find a Twitter thread where the majority of people are on the same page? It's like a four-leaf clover or a needle in a haystack.

It's a bipartisan piece of legislation if there ever was one, where a majority of Americans agree on an issue.

And yet, our government can't get it done.

Why?

Is it ego? Is it lobbyists? Is it stubbornness?

I think that speaks volumes about where we are as a nation, and just how dysfunctional our government actually is.

This legislation would cost the government (read: taxpayers) nothing. It doesn't fund any agency, doesn't create or expand any new entitlement program.

It simply says we will stop adjusting the clocks twice a year.

Something they already do in Arizona, Hawaii, and the territories of Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. And while DST is observed in Europe, most of the world does not. And they seem to do just fine.

It's incredibly hard not to be jaded by the inaction of government on such a simple issue. Especially when they're all eager and willing to vote to send billions of our tax dollars overseas, or pass legislation that infringes on our rights, or creates burdensome regulations or new offices full of unelected bureaucrats.

The lesson here is clear: as sure as the sun setting in the west, the government will be dysfunctional.

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