Posted on 07/23/2019 4:48:52 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Candidate Donald Trump famously promised to get rid of two federal regulations for every new one. With 2 1/2 years in office under his belt, he has vastly exceeded that standard. Paul Bedard reports:
It was an odd, geeky campaign promise for a populist presidential candidate to make. But when Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two Obama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild.
Those cheers stuck with him when he moved into the White House, and he put his promise into an executive order. And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers.
“We’ve hit 13 to 1,” he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.
My guess is that number is low.
Departments and agencies including the departments of Labor, Education, Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency have led the war on regulations, according to federal reports.
When I talk to business people about taxes and regulation, it is striking how often they emphasize counterproductive regulations. Lower taxes are good, definitely, but over-regulation is just as important a problem. That is the input I get, anyway. Cutting regulations is one area where the Trump administration has succeeded beyond any reasonable expectation.
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Outstanding!
This and conservative judges. The two main reasons I wanted him in office.
President Trump has faced unprecedented opposition, and yet he succeeds beyond my wildest dreams. The man has been sent by God.
And yet we are continually hearing from the opposition about what a failure he has been. What will it take for them to face up to the truth? An honest news media would make all the difference.
Although that has been obvious for many years, I think lately that concept has grown in urgency. I don't know how the federal government can do it (First Amendment being what it is) but I would like the government to find a way to force the news media to be honest. That hardly sounds unconstitutional to me.
The main reason I voted for him is wall and higher import tariffs. I give him D- and C for grades on those two issues.
This is why dema hate him. He is cutting off their sources of stifling competition and graft
Where is the wall ?
Still at WallMart I guess.
“This man has been sent by God”
Perhaps so but also in his favor and to his great credit is the fact he is a man who has often stated how important it is to never stop fighting and no matter how often you get knocked down to get up and start again.
It was in his books and it is something he has taught all his children.
Trump has also said, (paraphrased) “If you are afraid to lose, you will never be a winner”.
To put it a different way, there is no reward without risk and the bigger the reward the greater the risk.
The thought crossed my beady little mind that if POTUS would call the media out whenever they give a lieing fake news story and bar them from all news conferences and White House events for a week, it might begin to break the Rats from sucking eggs.
I think they have no idea what to do with Trump. He runs rings around them because his approach is a thousand times better than their approach.
“Where is the wall ?”
Go back to DU and ask them.
The Left sits there and tries to understand how Trump could grow the economy when Obama couldn’t - plus you have Trump tariffs that every ‘economist’ was sure would make us pay a price. The answer stared them in the face from 35 years ago when Reagan did the same (although not quite as effectively).
All it takes is the government GETTING OUT OF THE WAY of private enterprise and the rest is history. It’s very simple - business has a certain amount of capital to invest in improving their product. If the government adds regulations, such as air bags to cars, then most of that investment goes into designing air bags for cars. If the government doesn’t add regulations, then it goes into automating production and/or improving the underlying product. Either way, more product for the money - in other words, improved productivity.
I know the Leftists at the top understand that, which is why the really, really, bad regulations are only finalized when they know know a Republican is about to take office, as they did with arsenic once they knew that Bush Jr. was going to take office and as they did 100 times over when Trump was to take office. But most of the rest of the Left are still scratching their heads trying to figure out how Trump is able to do it.
I agree.
While he is my favorite Prez in history, whether he delivers on his main campaign promise --the object of constant chants-- my eyes are fully open and I don't see one.
I don't understand how still wanting that, instead of talk about that, makes me somehow unpatriotic or liberal.
A customer who doesn't hold a real estate man accountable for ANYTHING he promises, is that man BAD..?
No, it means he's not a total SUCKER.
The lying media (Pravda-west) has been THE problem all of my 59 years.
Enforcing slander/libel/defamation statutes could be the legal means to eradicate the evil without violating the Constitution.
Go back to DU and ask them.
So anybody who asks about his most important campaign promise, the big beautiful wall that Mexico was going to pay for, is a DU troll? I guess calling him a racist was already taken? Is it also racist trolling to ask about getting spending under control? That's why we elected a businessman who knew how to cut costs and be more efficient, wasn't it?
Just because our guy is better than their guy and has done some great things doesn't mean you have to turn into the Conservative version of the Jihad squad when anyone steps the slightest bit out of line and points out that the Emperor's clothes aren't quite as nice as you think they are.
The solution is relatively simple, but our disgusting Congress would never do it. The libel and slander laws need to be overhauled to make it easier to file and win such lawsuits. The media does what it does because they face only very rare consequences for their falsehoods.
As a whole Civil Service workers are at the top of the list when it comes to risk aversion and the bottom of the list for productivity
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