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The Great Deregulation amounts to cutting a few minor regulations, mostly passed in the last 8 years.
It's draining the ocean with a thimble.
That giant stack of paper representing federal regs won't be visibly smaller by the end of the Trump administration (if it's smaller at all).
McCain/Romney/BushIII would have "accomplished" the same.
Last edited by r3volution 3.0; 12-14-2017 at 03:11 PM.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Even if he is embellishing his removal of regulations, not adding regulations is a huge win.
Trump put a guy in charge of the EPA who Rand wrote op-eds with and who Rand called the best cabinet pick of his lifetime. Pruitt would have been Rand's nominee to key regulatory position. Pruitt's been great so far. https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-news...aul-wilkow-epa
Trump appointed a guy (the first person to endorse Rand for President) to head up that Elizabeth Warren created agency who is basically 9 out 10 on a libertarian scale.
Ending net neutrality is a big deal. Fair is fair. Trump has been surprisingly good on the regulatory front.
The catch is that even removing a regulation requires a regulation removing the previous one which adds to the total number of them.
Trump is touting the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. According to data from them, Trump has 3,209 regulations "in play" or proposed for 2017. Some have been acted on, some haven't. They compare that to Obama in 2016 when he had 3,320 regulations "in play". Not that different.
https://cei.org/blog/trumps-new-regu...by-the-numbers
Most of his "cuts" in regulations have been by not allowing proposed new regulations to take place- not by removing existing ones.
(the stacks in the photo-op are all just blank pieces of paper).
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 12-14-2017 at 07:00 PM.
My basement had a rat problem so I dropped in a ton of snakes to take care of them, now what do I do about the snake problem? I think i might feed a bunch of rats tylenol and send them back down to the basement so the snakes eat the rats and then die. What do I do about the rats that don't feel pain now?
Disrupt, Deny, Deflate. Read the RPF trolls' playbook here (post #3): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...eptive-members
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