Executive Order: For each new agency regulation issued, 10 must be repealed

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-massive-10-to-1-deregulation-initiative/

by bobongo • 1 year ago

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basementcat• 1 year ago

This is like requiring that for every line of code added to a repo, 10 lines need to be removed. This may be okay in the near term but also runs the risk of turning your repo into unmaintainable code golf.

readthenotes12• 1 year ago

It would have been fairly straightforward on some code bases I've worked on, at least for a while.

OutOfHere• 1 year ago

It can be done by moving a lot of code to new or existing reusable open source projects for the public benefit. Adding an open source dependency won't really count as "lines added". It is actually a good way independent of any requirement.

fuzzfactor• 1 year ago

Regular golf can be bad enough.

Can any government agency really have any effect on a consistent low-performer who is declining faster than ever, when their priority for golf exceeds that for some of the institutions that actually have made America great?

There's just no effect on his day-to-day either way for somebody like that, whether any agencies even exist or not.

Remember, Ronald Reagan knew who Trump was and never would have trusted him as far as he could throw him, like the vast majority of people in the world, not just Americans at the time. Anybody who even knew who Trump was, recognized he had nothing to offer in real estate or anything else and the only thing going was the typical self-promotion from somebody who is fake at heart.

Trump started out synonymous with dishonesty and bankruptcy and never changed his stripes.

He missed out on all the best real estate deals in Florida during some of the best times, he was widely shunned, trust levels make a big difference. When others who had below-average business acumen made out well enough to put Trump's properties to complete shame when it comes to appreciation alone. Which took Trump way more decades than a normal person would do using the same resources too.

Squandering resources is the proven life's work of Trump so far, and it's probably too late to change now.

Reagan said he wanted "more sensible" regulations, of course he meant fewer of them and he was serious.

It's so embarrassing that Trump is not sensible at all, nor serious enough for the job at hand, more like a clown.

I've said it before but Reagan with Alzheimer's was brilliant by comparison and it's more plain to see every day.

dinkumthinkum• 1 year ago

Well, it's hard to make this comparison. It is probably more like some kind of requirement that for any new feature, you need to refactor some percentage of the code, assuming the existing code is quite bloated and legacy. I think this is a closer analog than just lines of code.

readthenotes12• 1 year ago

Next president: for every executive order I emit, I will cancel 10 previous...

Ekaros• 1 year ago

Why not have them automatically lapse?

foogazi• 1 year ago

Government by memes, why 10 ?

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/chestertons-fence

drewbug01• 1 year ago

It’s hard to see how either logical outcome (massive deregulation, or regulatory paralysis) serves any useful goal for the American people.

We can quibble about the exact shape of the regulatory state, but it has given us clean water; breathable air; innumerable safeguards in the products we buy and the lives we lead. Simply destroying it is a deeply unserious approach to governing and is a disgrace.

Executive Order: For each new agency regulation issued, 10 must be repealed

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