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Executive Order: For each new agency regulation issued, 10 must be repealed

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This 1.8 T was calculated by the AAF a republican right wing group that once asserted that it is proven that in medicine market forces work. So take that absurd amount with a grain of salt.

And that analysis is being relayed credulously by possibly the most influential libertarian think tank in the US, so perhaps a spoonful is warranted.

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This 1.8 T was calculated by the AAF a republican right wing group that once asserted that it is proven that in medicine market forces work. So take that absurd amount with a grain of salt.

How about the OMB under Biden, which estimated "information collection" alone takes the government 10.3 billion hours in FY2022? At $50/hour, that's already $500B. If you factor in everything other than "information collection", as well as the cost of compliance from private companies, $1.8T doesn't seem implausible.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2023/09/25/federal-p...

Re: Executive Order: For each new agency regulation issued, 10 must be repealed

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This is like requiring that for every line of code added to a repo, 10 lines need to be removed. This may be okay in the near term but also runs the risk of turning your repo into unmaintainable code golf.

It would have been fairly straightforward on some code bases I've worked on, at least for a while.
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