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Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by all_usernames »

dragthor wrote: post #77
thetrb wrote: post #32

There's a lot of really scary stuff in there: - Cancel payments to U.N. climate change projects - Remove two existing regulations for every new regulation - Drastic tax cuts - Massive immigration changes

- Cancel UN climate payments, use money instead on America water and environmental issues. Sounds good to me. Let China and India clean up their own mess, while we clean up our messes. - Yes. Too many regulations by unelected bureaucrats. Sounds good to me. I'd rather have one clear and meaningful regulation than two "up for random interpretation." - Yes. Tax cuts for all working people. Let people decide what to do…

Tax cuts for all means reducing government resources, which means increasing the power of huge corporations. This is a hostile takeover of the American government.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by snowwrestler »

dragthor wrote: post #50
_RPM wrote: post #34

And this post has been censored from HN's liberal agenda! edit: right after people started calling "them" out, it was unflagged.

Why is this flagged? Someone please provide a reason. Thanks.

I did not flag this, but I often flag general political stuff because you can read and talk about that anywhere.

I believe HN is at its best on technical topics or topics directly related to technical merit (for example, encryption backdoor policy fight).

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by pasquinelli »

kafkaesq wrote: post #61
thetrb wrote: post #32

There's a lot of really scary stuff in there: - Cancel payments to U.N. climate change projects - Remove two existing regulations for every new regulation - Drastic tax cuts - Massive immigration changes

Remove two existing regulations for every new regulation On the bright side, this is a sure-fire recipe for deadlock.

or for ballooning the size and complexity of each regulation, as each new regulation has to fold into itself two existing regulations that need to be removed for the sake of this plan.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by doctorshady »

thetrb wrote: post #32

There's a lot of really scary stuff in there: - Cancel payments to U.N. climate change projects - Remove two existing regulations for every new regulation - Drastic tax cuts - Massive immigration changes

Maybe I just don't understand how light touch government works, but wouldn't removing two regulations per new regulation help special interest groups in a lot of cases?

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by cesarbs »

A lot of what's in there seems pretty reasonable, but:

1) The whole border wall thing is just ridiculous. I thought he had given up on that. Why would Mexico have to pay for that? If the US wants to build a wall, fine, build it and pay for it. It doesn't make sense to demand that Mexico pay for it. It's like building a wall on your property and demanding your neighbors pay for it.

2) The FDA thing is scary. Regulations and processes are there for a reason. I'll be very wary if this goes through and I ever have to take any medication that's not established in the market.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by kbenson »

dharmon wrote: post #79
knowaveragejoe wrote: post #43

Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying. Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it. The scariest things for me are the backing out of cli…

Who knows how many outdated regulations are still on the books? It seems the thing to do would be hire interns to start scouring for every "A married woman shall not chop down a birchwood tree on the day of her wedding while wearing her bridal gown" style law. If this idea persisted for 50 years maybe they'd have to start repealing actual relevant regulations.

> It seems the thing to do would be higher interns to start scouring for every "A married woman shall not chop down a birchwood tree on the day of her wedding while wearing her bridal gown" style law.

Sure, but how many of those exist at a federal level? Those are often city, county and sometimes state regulations.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by ep103 »

Jtsummers wrote: post #73
thetrb wrote: post #32

There's a lot of really scary stuff in there: - Cancel payments to U.N. climate change projects - Remove two existing regulations for every new regulation - Drastic tax cuts - Massive immigration changes

The hiring freeze for federal employees is concerning as well. One of the major issues is that we've had several hiring freezes in the US civil service in recent decades. It causes a bathtub effect. You do reduce the workforce through attrition, but eventually you have to hire again and hire almost exclusively junior people ( You lose a great deal of institutional knowledge (particularly critical for civil service wh…

Are you telling me starve the beast doesn't actually work?

Color me shocked. : )

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by dragonwriter »

internaut wrote: post #4

> FIRST propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. If he does this alone, then he's made a huge impact. I'm really concerned he might be assassinated.

> If he does this alone, then he's made a huge impact

No single action could increase the power of lobbyists and unelected officials not directly accountable to voters more than this, it's true. It would be an enormous impact.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by icantdrive55 »

I am wondering when this will be taken down, or revised.

"G---dam it, why didn't anyone tell me about The Wayback Machine!" sorry President.

I'll be honest, this is the first time I have seen this, and I'm generally impressed.

Actually, I'm thinking of a building simple website that keeps track of every promise on that contract.

He is going to have a busy 100 days.

Re: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by b_emery »

knowaveragejoe wrote: post #43

Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying. Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it. The scariest things for me are the backing out of cli…

California tried term limits. They didnt work. Turns out you need to have actual political skills to do politics.
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