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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 03:30 PM Oct 2016

For every regulation, get rid of two - lol!


This is comedy gold.

It also crystallizes why these people cannot have a serious conversation about anything.

In order to ban Samsung phones from aircraft, the FAA has to get rid of seatbelts and exit lighting, I suppose.

Of course that's an oversimplification, but I'd love to know how we count a "regulation".

By section number? Paragraph? Sub-paragraph? Well of course not, because then the government could just punctuate around the 2 for 1 rule.

Like:

1. Airplane seats must have seat belts.

2. Airplane seat belts must withstand X Newtons of force.

Is that two regulations?

Okay:

1. Airplane seats must have seat belts capable of withstanding X Newtons of force.

Is that one regulation?

Or are we going to linguistically analyze all proposed and existing regulations in order to figure out how many rules are contained within a "regulation"?
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For every regulation, get rid of two - lol! (Original Post) jberryhill Oct 2016 OP
Sure. To hell w/ deciding which regs might actually be 'too much'... Panich52 Oct 2016 #2
Trump has confused government agencies with a Chinese take-out. procon Oct 2016 #4
Lol jberryhill Oct 2016 #6
Shows how inane he is treestar Oct 2016 #5
Each bill required to have a coupon good for ten regulations max jberryhill Oct 2016 #7
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procon

(15,805 posts)
4. Trump has confused government agencies with a Chinese take-out.
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 04:24 PM
Oct 2016

Buy one entree and get two sides free!

treestar

(82,383 posts)
5. Shows how inane he is
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 04:27 PM
Oct 2016

and that he does not understand the US Constitution. He probably means statutes, too, as the regulations only carry out the statutes, so how does it matter how many of them there are? He can't tell Congress it must repeal two laws for every one it passes.

Even if he got an R Congress he could not control them like that.

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