Posted on 10/04/2017 12:37:58 PM PDT by ptsal
In a blog post titled “Red Tape Rollback: Trump Least-Regulatory President Since Reagan,” author Clyde Wayne Crews outlines three main ways that Trump is cutting the red tape.
First, Trump issued an executive order in January, requiring agencies to cut two rules for every new regulation adopted. He also said that net new regulatory costs were to be zero.
Trump also issued a Reorganization Executive Order that requires the Office of Management and Budget to submit a plan aimed at reducing the size of federal agencies.
By Sept. 30, the Federal Register tallied 45,678 pages, down 32% from a year ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepacker.com ...
Finally, the number of economically significant proposed rules also are way down, from 290 from January through September last year to just 65 so far this year. The American Action Forum also has its own scorecard for regulatory savings.
If nothing else, Trump has pumped the brakes on the expansion of regulation in the federal government. And that’s something.
Kudos to him. He is just one man fighting the entire swamp.
Finally! We need to scrape the barnacles of bureaucracy from the ship’s hull of industry in this country, and it sounds like he is doing more than paying lip service to it...
If he is living up to his campaign promises it wasn’t rhetoric.
At least not in the sense of being typical campaign BS with little chance of becoming true.
Like the RINOs who campaigned on repealing Obamacare but backed away when thei chance to do so came about.
Yep, tapping the brakes, like Reagan in the 80s. Wish I could be more optimistic. But like Bannon said on 60 minutes, it will take years, even decades to well and truly drain the swamp.
That’s my President!
MAGA!
But... when you've dug yourself into a hole, the first step to fixing the problem is to set down the shovel. Trump's done that, IMO.
And - locally at least, I've noticed at least 8 or 10 abandoned gas stations - vacant, falling in, maybe dangerous? - that have been reclaimed in the past few months. Nothing built on them, but the old tanks were pulled out, the lots were leveled and are now ready for development.
Strange that they're all getting redone at once, these places have been crumbling for years. My guess is that there was some PITA regulation that was recently rolled back and the owners took advantage to reclaim the property.
An improvement, IMO. Much better than a derelict building and crumbling infrastructure.
Strange that they're all getting redone at once, these places have been crumbling for years. My guess is that there was some PITA regulation that was recently rolled back and the owners took advantage to reclaim the property.
You know, I've seen something similar, now that you point it out. At one site near me on a busy intersection, there was an abandoned gas station for years. In just the past few months, the station was pulled down, the tanks dug up, and a bank branch building is going up on the lot.
Also, in my village, the local gas station just dug up and replaced one of its tanks.
I bet you're on to something. Any Freepers in the gas station or environmental cleanup business happen to know?
If it wasn't for President Trump, the Republicans wouldn't have any accomplishments apart from obstruction this year.
Restaurants and Grocery Stores, especially. No changes for years and years, then Trump comes in and everyone is putting money back into their businesses, remodeling.
It's good to see, been a couple of decades, at least, since there's been this kind of vibrancy.
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