Negislation (n): A legal act which, by design or accident, achieves the opposite effect to that which it purportedly intends. See also negulation.
Coined at Crooked Timber, which provides by way of example the Travel Promotion Act, which would levy a $25 fee against anyone visitor to the United States in order to subsidize the tourism industry's efforts to attract visitors to the United States.
Posted by Kriston at June 24, 2008 5:18 PM