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r3volution 3.0
It's not a trick question or something. I'm simply asking you define what you mean you say he "reduced the rate of growth of the state." If I said "Tony Romo increased the awesomeness of the Cowboys by 51.74%" that would be a meaningless statement without defining "awesomeness," and in a quantifiable way.
If all you're talking about is the fact that fewer new regulations were implemented so far by Trump than were implemented by some of his predecessors over a comparable period in their terms, per the chart posted earlier, well fine, that's true, but then my response (to repeat myself) is BIG WHOOP. Adding a couple dozen fewer regulations than would otherwise have been added means nothing when you already have nearly 200,000 PAGES of regulations. Number of regulations isn't a very good metric to begin with (because different regulations have different effects: 1 regulation might cost 1000x more than 50 others), so it's only really useful for large scale changes. If you go from 200,000 to 150,000 pages of regs, odds are the total regulatory burden declined. If you go from 200,000 to 200,001, instead of from 200,000 to 200,003, that doesn't really tell you anything.
Bottom line: Trump hasn't really done anything, he's just maintained the status quo.
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