Streamlining laws

Every year new laws and bills are created.  Many stay with us for decades until a conflict or discrepancy draws attention to them.  Others have complex loopholes or work negatively in combination with other bills.  Those involved in Law must study and memorize countless volumes of laws that accumulate each year.

Why can't the government take a step to streamline their backlog of laws and bills, taking out redundancies and obsolescence.  The more bills that get added, the more government turns into a manipulative bureaucracy of stagnant tedious paperwork.  Like Canada.

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  let's put practicality aside for a moment, and I'll just say that yes, I wish they could generate a more harmonious code in this country.  I wish that they had scholars whose sole function was to read code with conflicts in mind, and to read with an imaginative point of view.  Moreover, I wish they would spend more time reviewing law in the abstract, without necessarily needing an actual case in order to make certain judgements about the law (beyond whether it is constitutional).  This seems to imply a greater power for the Judicial branch, so it would be necessary to have a tradeoff with the Legislative.....