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

[Carla Howell]

I agree with this idea, and am hopeful we'll see real results.

I don't consider the 2-for-1 rule to be proof, however, that he will reduce
the regualtory state. There are lots of ways to manipulate that. Depending
on what yuo count "one reg" to be, plus the fact that, even if you could
define that, some regs are 100 times more onerous than others.

The 75% promise seems a bit more likely to produce results, but also
subject to manipulation. What he should be promising is to remove 75% of
the BURDEN of regs.

THen there's the Republican's notorious unwillingness to actually cut
anything. Like Reagan/Bennett promising to eliminate the Dept o Ed.

That said, I'm happy to write a press release in a hopeful, praising tone.

Nick - want this?

Carla Howell
Political Director
National Libertarian Party
202-333-0008 x 222

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Starchild <sfdreamer at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> 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,
>                                   ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>                                 (415) 625-FREE
>                                    @StarchildSF
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://hq.lp.org/pipermail/lnc-business/attachments/20170131/2b13c914/attachment-0002.html>