What does cutting 75% of regulations do to the US?

[cynatnite]

Salmonella infested food? Smog-filled skies over our cities? Ending nutrition requirements in schools? Gutting the clean air act? Not giving a crap where corporations dump their trash? OSHA regs getting axed?

There are scores of regulations and Trump wants to get rid of 75% of them.

My husband is an OTR truck driver. We own the truck so we have discretion in how much and how long he drives. We'd still make a living and be safe at the same time. Company drivers won't have that luxury. If trucking regulations are gutted, I know how it will impact this industry.

Many of you will likely have a good idea how it will impact your particular industry.

We know the repubs well and how much they despise even the most modest of regulations.

When I think of 75% of the regulations going away, all I see are the dangers to Americans rising exponentially.

[Kentonio]

1. Yup basically exactly that.

It's a dogma with them. Only they could turn around in the wake of Flint and cheerlead for destroying the EPA, and hacking away regulations. Kids with brain injuries apparently matters to them about as much as dead kids at Sandyhook did.

[beachbum bob]

2. If 75 percent of regulations and rules eliminated...We be china

Which the end game...

[world wide wally]

3. And they will increase regulation on individual liberties by 75% as well.

[smirkymonkey]

4. It's madness.

The man is completely insane.

[Iggo]

5. It kills people. (n/t)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I'm sure Trump has no clue about how regulations are made.

There is an extensive procedure required by the Administrative Procedures Act that requires an agency that wants to promulgate a rule to publish the proposed rule in advance, usually 60 days. The agency must do a cost-benefit analysis showing that the rule would be more beneficial than costly. Then the public has the opportunity to submit comments about the rule - whether or not it should be adopted; whether parts of it should be changed, etc. Many proposed rules are then subject to a courtoom-type hearing where the decision whether to adopt the rule is reached on the basis of evidence given and received on the record. It's not like these agency regulations are just pulled out of some bureaucrat's ass - they go through a thorough, public analysis.

[vinny9698]

7. There was a time in history without regulations. The "Robber Barons' and the Guilded Age.

Just study those two time periods in history.
Child labor, poor houses, unsafe working conditions, slave wages.
Those are exactly what the GOP wants, 2017 Robber Barons.
His cabinet and advisers are all of that caliber and mentality.

[sarcasmo]

21. Robber Barons is right on. Multi millionaires and Billionaires running the country.

[procon]

8. Its certainly going to benefit the polluters and extracting industries.

The ordinary citizens? Meh... not so much. How do you fight against corporations that can now legally poison our air and water, contaminate the land, and pollute the food and products we buy?

[Vinca]

9. Well, we witnessed what deregulation did to the mortgage industry.

We saw what no rules did to Flint, Michigan. Regulations are put in place for a reason. Maybe if Der Fuhrer gets a tainted salad and pukes for a few days he'll wake up.

[Doreen]

10. As I just said in another post for those who understand.

Welcome back "the aroma of Tacoma".

[Wounded Bear]

12. As someone who grew up downwind...

I know exactly what you mean.

[Doreen]

17. You poor thing. I only expierienced it when I went through.

[Wounded Bear]

18. It was about 15 miles away...

we couldn't smell it every day. I suppose if we could have, we would have gotten used to it. But every 10-15 days or so, the wind would be strong enough from the WSW and we'd get a whiff of it.

Technically, IIRC it wasn't actually Tacoma that smelled that way. There was a small section contained within the city that was actually a different city called Ruston, so it skated on local regulations for many years. Had several paper mills and a copper smelter IIRC.

[madokie]

20. Welcome to the aroma of west Tulsa

all the refineries, all the spoiled water and air.

WE are FUCKED bigtime

[Wounded Bear]

11. Ever watch any episodes of "Deadwood"...

that old HBO series.

I think that about covers it.

[angstlessk]

13. More rivers to burn...remember the Cuyahoga River Fire?

https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/63#.WIY_2VMrKUk

[JHan]

14. They actually think cutting regulations will improve growth.

On a state by state basis, there is regulatory over-reach in some areas, but what Trump & Co are on is a fever dream which won't accomplish what they think it will. SAD.

[wiggs]

15. We always tend to ignore the overseas examples of weak federal governments with lax

regulations, maximum freedom for TPTB, non-existant safety nets. It's not like this kind of stuff hasn't been tried elsewhere.

Mexico, Iraq, Somalia...probably lots more, mostly not places on the top of your retirement overseas list.

[KittyWampus]

16. Air pollution like China. Dead miners cause mines aren't regulated.

[Bettie]

19. My husband repairs hospital equipment

if the regulations there are done away with, well, he will be out of a job AND a whole bunch of people will die from preventable infections.

[jmowreader]

22. Watch US Chemical Safety Board videos on YouTube, and you'll see

To answer your question, it's very simple:

PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE. LOTS OF THEM.