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To: Road Walker who wrote (22642)	8/13/2010 1:34:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Then you think that 50% of the regulations that govern what a street safe car consists of could be eliminated? My statement was not so specific. It was 50% of all regulations. Some very specific forms of regulation might not be reduced at all, others could be slashed severely or even entirely eliminated. Its possible that 50% of our regulations that govern what a street safe car consists of could be reasonably eliminated, but I'm not ready to go beyond "its possible", and straight out assert that it can and should happen. And who exactly decides what regulation gets dumped? The "special interests"? Yes that's a problem. Its not like reduction in regulation can go through some more perfect or purer political process than the increases went through. It would work better for complete deregulation of a very specific area (for example the removal of regulations on prices for airlines, that happened with airline deregulation), or for avoidance of regulation in new areas. Areas that are going to be heavily regulated even after cuts won't be so "clean", and its possible that the best regulations will be cut while the worst ones are kept in place, because the worst ones favor some influential special interest.