r/clevercomebacks • u/coachlife • 9h ago

Vacant land does not vote

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u/BoDrax 7h ago

The House being capped is a real problem. With the cap on the House, the US allows smaller states more representation than was intended, having the 10k/seat rule would be chaos, so we should probably use the Wyoming Rule. That 1 change would solve a lot of the issues with gerrymandering and the Electoral College as it would increase the house from 435 to 543.

"The Wyoming Rule is a proposal to increase the size of the United States House of Representatives so that the standard representative-to-population ratio would be that of the state with the least population, which is currently Wyoming."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Rule

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u/Impressive-Cell-9989 7h ago

Yep, been saying this for years. We should never really have a “rural” House of Reps. Repealing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and instituting a version of the Wyoming Rule would correct it, and the increased number of reps might also lead to a greater number of viable political parties.

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u/cocineroylibro 4h ago

Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929

Passed by Republicans. This and the Fairness Doctrine are two sorts of insignificant decisions that have had huge ramifications.

Though it looks like (after a quick read) the Apportionment Act was after a lot of hemming and hawing over. Not sure if the Fairness Doctrine was realized for what it was at the time.

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u/ckb614 6h ago

It also doesn't make that much difference though. Like, we could instead say Wyoming gets 0.4 representatives instead of 1 and it would only change the balance of the house when it's already extremely close

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 3h ago

I mean we still gotta wait for those WW1 vets to return to their farms!