{"id":131738,"date":"2016-10-07T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/trump-and-deregulation.html"},"modified":"2016-10-07T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:16:28","slug":"trump-and-deregulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/trump-and-deregulation.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Deregulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump doesn&#39;t like regulations on business. Anything that stands in the way of business profits is, per se, a bad thing and should be gotten rid of.<\/p>\n<p>Which is, if you think of it, sort of an odd attitude for a man who has also declared a heart allegiance to &quot;law and order.&quot; Business regulation is, after all, law and order applied to business practices.<\/p>\n<p>Just handwaving the principle of deregulation isn&#39;t helpful without specifics, except to highlight that Trump considers &quot;business growth&quot; as a paramount value for government.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Colm Buckley<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Has anyone ever asked him to name a single regulation he would eliminate?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-us-2016-37582318'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/RVw8jDk6EAdcIyiCNTySq-ZHjkCiyzfnnas_n9QOUxJ2YG8yYbyPv54qj415Lhw5FIuggPgTWDsjUMe9WBfRCbSQOD6BBc2Ni6kCWKn6Ji6Z1Ukjl9JvfcsseZCmSJy1UgN10QrwgdfFIGq7nQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-us-2016-37582318'>Donald Trump says 70% of federal regulations could go &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nUS Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he could cut as many as 70% of federal US regulations if he is elected.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/hYZqHSrg49o'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump doesn&#39;t like regulations on business. Anything that stands in the way of business profits is, per se, a bad thing and should be gotten rid of. Which is, if you think of it, sort of an odd attitude for a man who has also declared a heart allegiance to &quot;law and order.&quot; Business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/trump-and-deregulation.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump and Deregulation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/30\/trumps-silly-2-for-1-regulation-rule.html","url_meta":{"origin":131738,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#039;s silly 2-for-1 regulation rule","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Jan-17 2:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This rule is one of those things that makes me sputter in contemptuous disbelief that someone thought it was a good idea to actually do. 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