Mike Sproul, a professor at CSUN, is a frequent poster on the Mises blog. Robert Blumen addresses Sproul’s ‘real bills doctrine’ (well, it’s not Sproul’s, but Sproul is an avid advocate) in a September 2010 Mises Daily, but I wonder if the real bills doctrine has been challenged more seriously anywhere else. How widespread is the RBD in terms of advocacy? Is its ‘following’ comparable to MMT (in terms of rarity amongst the professional economics community)?
Sure it would help immensly if our Dear Congress and Executive Leaders would have to write bills that a single human could read. But given that the Government makes the rules for this game and can change them at will, it is a pointless activity. Even if you made a Constitutional Ammendment that would not be ignored like Ammendments:1, 2, 4, 5, 9 and 10 are currently, then the legislature would just word the law to be created by the Executive.
RBD is monetary theory, not political theory.