[Lnc-business] Credit where credit is due – Request for LP press release on Trump's bold regulatory reforms

[Starchild]

	Like most Libertarians, I was dismayed upon hearing of Donald Trump's cruel and unconstitutional executive order issued Friday barring refugees from entering the United States, and singling out people from seven Muslim-majority countries to be denied admittance as well, initially including even green card holders (though embarrassingly for the administration, they later had to backpedal on that). People across the country are protesting the ban, and rightly so:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/29/watch-live-protests-outside-white-house-over-immigration-ban/97216470/

	Thus I was very glad to see the LP quickly issued a strong press release condemning the action and making it clear that we support the Muslims whose rights are being violated – https://www.lp.org/we_stand_with_you/ . The unequivocal "We stand with you" declaration is exactly the kind of language I think we ought to be using more often when communicating to victims of the State, and I commend Lauren Daugherty or whoever came up with it (her name appears in the byline at https://www.lp.org/we_stand_with_you/ ).

	Yesterday, however, it turns out that Trump did something equally momentous but really positive – and I'm not being sarcastic! As was alluded to in Thomas Knapp's Rational Review Digest l where I read about it (http://rationalreview.com/archives/245914), Libertarians like writer L. Neil Smith have been advocating such a reform for years. If it is carried out and enforced, this will mean a sea change in the right direction:

"President Trump on Monday signed an executive order that would require agencies to revoke two regulations for every new rule they want to issue. The executive order is aimed at dramatically rolling back federal regulations, one of his top campaign promises. … Trump's order does make exceptions for emergencies and national security."

http://thehill.com/regulation/overnights/316893-overnight-regulation-trump-orders-one-in-two-out-plan-for-regs

	While this doesn't change my view that Donald Trump in the White House remains a disaster waiting to happen, it's nice to see such dramatic proof that the executive pen won't be solely wielded to tighten the screws of the incipient police state.

	Possibly even more exciting, the article also notes that the Trump administration has already imposed a regulatory freeze:

"White House chief of staff Reince Priebus sent a memo to agency heads hours after the inauguration advising them not to issue any more regulations."

	The president even had something intelligent and nuanced to say on the subject:

"This isn't a knock on President Obama; this is a knock on many president[s] preceding me," he said, referring to the burdens on businesses. "Regulation has been horrible for big business, but it's been worse for small business."

	Further according to the Hill article, Trump also said he isn't done targeting regulations, and reiterated "his campaign promise to try and cut 75 percent of rules." Dare we hope that he actually means it?

	While I wouldn't want to see us make a habit of praising the ruling establishment, in the spirit of fairness and giving credit where credit is due, I encourage the chair and/or staff to issue a Libertarian Party press release commending the new administration for these actions.

	Here are a couple factoids from The Hill piece that could be good to cite in a release:
"The U.S. isn't the first country to impose such a restriction on regulators. Trump could use similar policies in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom as a model for his order. 

For every rule issued in the U.K., three existing rules must be eliminated.

According to a U.K. government report, that requirement saved businesses £885 million from May 5, 2015 to May 26, 2016, or nearly $1.1 billion based on current conversion rates."

Love & Liberty,
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