How is legislation "piggy backing" allowed?

[Stiganator]

I don't understand why this practice is allowed. Can anyone explain why unrelated topic matter can be added to legislation? How can we stop this?

It seems like stopping this would be a major step towards fixing a broken legislation system. Perhaps they could vote in a piece-wise manner, supporting some parts of the Bill and not others?

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[Lemon law]

This is a US congressional problem exactly as old as the US congress itself. Find a bill to do something popular and any amount of garbage can be added in the form of amendments. And legislators make deals with other legislators to sneak in their garbage if they let the other guy sneak in their garbage. And now new tools like earmarks
have also seen explosive growth in recent years. But bottom line you take the whole package, the good and the bad, and then vote with the majority ruling. And sometimes the people get lucky when conflicting house and senate versions pass, then another chance exists for sanity as a conference committee may strip out some garbage.

A Presidential line item veto has been suggested as a remedy, but that has been ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS.

Better House and Senate rules would help, or funding limit offsets, but that usually goes over like an alcoholic giving up the bottle. Its always later. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Its always been no pig left behind.