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Because it's not a good method for getting a clear view of things.
Except then your at the mercy of, at best, the people who ignore this advise, or at worst, the people who intentionally made things overly complicated in order to screw you.
For example, why can't most people read the bill? Because the bill is extremely unnecessarily long. Why is the bill extremely unnecessarily long? The better for the lobbyists to hide all the ways they're screwing you on behalf of their clients.
It looks like society needs some specialists who make a living interpreting these things , political journalists maybe.
Yes, and in particular, I can form my opinion based on what others write about it rather than having to say "no opinion" if I haven't read the bill myself.