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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

Regulation Repeals Show ‘The Swamp’ Is Rising

Author:     Dave Johnson
Source:     Our Future
Publication Date:     March 6, 2017
 Link: Regulation Repeals Show ‘The Swamp’ Is Rising
Stephan:   The surveys that I read say that Trump voters simply don't believe what their lying eyes and ears are telling them. They are making a conscious choice to avoid knowing. It is a major trend that ought to be receiving much more attention than is happening. But those voters are going to experience what Trump is actually doing. His choices and decisions are going to have an enormous impact on the lives of these poor fools -- and the rest of us. And we are only 46 days into this disaster. Here are some facts.

President Donald Trump

Time and again, Candidate Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp in Washington.” He swore to curb lobbying of government by special interest groups to procure favors for their clients.

But instead, President Trump has cut out the middleman – he’s gone directly into the business of of corporate giveaways. He’s already gutted most of the regulations on a “wish list” submitted to him by the Business Roundtable, a $6 trillion lobby of top executives.

And this is just the first wave of pro-business actions: Trump has pledged in an executive order to remove two existing regulations for every new one. He’s already removed 90 in his first weeks in office, and if his record thus far is any guide, there are more giveaways to come.

The ‘Wish List’

The Business Roundtable is a lobbying organization for corporations with more than $6 trillion in annual revenues. On February 23, they polled their members and came up with a list of sixteen regulations they wanted Trump to get rid of as quickly as possible.

USA Today summarizes their top priorities for […]

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