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I don't know: > THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated. Is scariest to me given a Republican

I don't know: > THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated. Is scariest to me given a Republican controlled Congress. The one sided control makes me nervous.

zanny 10y ago
This document contradicts that every other sentence after that. Almost all the bills he proposes are regulations, the executive orders... regulations. He proposes to overturn about a quarter as many things as he wants made law or executive order.
pdonis 10y ago
Congress doesn't write federal regulations. Executive branch agencies do, within very broad guidelines that Congress has put in the statutes empowering those agencies. A lot of what Trump is proposing here can be done without any Congressional action at all; it's just a matter of changing the priorities of the agencies who write the regulations. Of course, doing that is a much, much bigger job than I think Trump realizes.
novalis78 10y ago
This is fantastic. That's exactly how it should be. Otherwise over decades you end up with regulations that stifle all forms of entrepreneurship and creativity.
- nihonde 10y ago
  What is a unit of "regulation"? I can pack five thousand onerous rules into one document and eliminate two documents that contain guidance with very minor impact. Is that a net gain?
- good_gnu 10y ago
  And in this way you end up with 0 regulations, which I assume we are supposed to consider a feature, not a bug?
  - D_Alex 10y ago
    One regulation, at least you'd still have that.
- bmm6o 10y ago
  Next time you write a line of code, you have to delete two others.
  - deleted 10y ago
    [deleted]
  - anonbanker 10y ago
    What would happen if we applied this for 4 years on an existing codebase, such as the Linux Kernel?
    - TylerE 10y ago
      Most likely support for obscure devices would disappear.
      - anonbanker 10y ago
        To be fair, that's already starting to happen[0]. do you think it would happen faster than it is today? 0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg
    - alayne 10y ago
      People would fix the low hanging fruit and leave the hard/hairy parts that need work the most.
      - tjbiddle 10y ago
        True - but then eventually, everyone would have to focus on the hard/hairy parts, no?
        grzm 10y ago
        Yup. That doesn't mean that it's not worth taking care of the easy bits first.
- tootie 10y ago
  It's nonsense. Measure regulatory burden by number of rules is absolutely arbitrary.

zanny 10y ago

This document contradicts that every other sentence after that. Almost all the bills he proposes are regulations, the executive orders... regulations. He proposes to overturn about a quarter as many things as he wants made law or executive order.

pdonis 10y ago

Congress doesn't write federal regulations. Executive branch agencies do, within very broad guidelines that Congress has put in the statutes empowering those agencies. A lot of what Trump is proposing here can be done without any Congressional action at all; it's just a matter of changing the priorities of the agencies who write the regulations. Of course, doing that is a much, much bigger job than I think Trump realizes.

novalis78 10y ago

This is fantastic. That's exactly how it should be. Otherwise over decades you end up with regulations that stifle all forms of entrepreneurship and creativity.

nihonde 10y ago
What is a unit of "regulation"? I can pack five thousand onerous rules into one document and eliminate two documents that contain guidance with very minor impact. Is that a net gain?
good_gnu 10y ago
And in this way you end up with 0 regulations, which I assume we are supposed to consider a feature, not a bug?
- D_Alex 10y ago
  One regulation, at least you'd still have that.
bmm6o 10y ago
Next time you write a line of code, you have to delete two others.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- anonbanker 10y ago
  What would happen if we applied this for 4 years on an existing codebase, such as the Linux Kernel?
  - TylerE 10y ago
    Most likely support for obscure devices would disappear.
    - anonbanker 10y ago
      To be fair, that's already starting to happen[0]. do you think it would happen faster than it is today? 0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg
  - alayne 10y ago
    People would fix the low hanging fruit and leave the hard/hairy parts that need work the most.
    - tjbiddle 10y ago
      True - but then eventually, everyone would have to focus on the hard/hairy parts, no?
      - grzm 10y ago
        Yup. That doesn't mean that it's not worth taking care of the easy bits first.
tootie 10y ago
It's nonsense. Measure regulatory burden by number of rules is absolutely arbitrary.