Ronald Reagan deregulation caused this mess.

[MaryL]

For starters. PATCO. Regan disbanded mental health asylums and he opened the borders and 30 years later, we get this homeless crisis and illegal aliens. Ronald Regan caused this.

 

[elektra]

It is not the job of the Federal Government to fund State Hospitals

It is up to the states to take care of the people in their state, not Ronald Reagan

 

[g5000]

The MAGA movement's journey to fascism continues...

 

[DudleySmith]

Carter and the Democrats 'Watergate Babies' started the deregulation craze and tax cuts for the rich craze; REagan merely copied Carter. It was Carter who first appointed Voelker.

Jimmy Carter, The Great Deregulator | The Regulatory Review

By pushing for deregulation and adopting other reforms, President Carter left an enduring legacy on the U.S. regulatory system.

www.theregreview.org

Evidence had been mounting over the previous decade that the economic regulatory agencies were susceptible to political capture by their regulated industries, and that price controls—supposedly aimed at protecting consumers from monopolistic pricing—seemed to accomplish exactly the opposite result. President Carter enticed Cornell economics professor Alfred Kahn to Washington to head the CAB. Although not initially inclined to remove price regulation altogether, Kahn, with support from President Carter, soon realized that complete deregulation was the only hope for a more competitive and consumer-focused airline industry. In 1978, President Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act, clearing the way for the CAB to be abolished a few years later.

President Carter later appointed Darius Gaskins, one of Kahn’s deputies at the CAB, to chair the ICC. The great success of airline deregulation paved the way for deregulation in other transportation modes and in telecommunications. In 1980, President Carter signed the Motor Carrier Act, which deregulated the trucking industry, the Staggers Rail Act, which introduced competition in rail rates, and the Telecommunications Act, which removed restrictions on long-distance phone service. These actions allowed new entrants into the markets, increased efficiency, lowered prices, offered consumers more choices, and likely contributed to declining inflation. Thanks in no small part to President Carter, competition in formerly regulated markets has not just reallocated resources but unleashed innovation and generated tens of billions of dollars in lasting benefits for consumers and society as a whole.

President Carter also focused attention on the newer regulatory agencies and on increasing concerns over red tape and excessive compliance burdens. In contrast to his approach to economic regulation, which many reformers had agreed should just be removed, President Carter approached health, safety, and environmental regulation by focusing on “improved regulatory management…and the adoption of less-intrusive regulatory techniques.” He set up cabinet-level oversight councils to review the new agencies’ most important regulatory proposals and to encourage more cost-effective forms of regulation.

His Executive Order 12044 required agencies to analyze the impact of proposed regulations and make those analyses publicly available. The order stressed practices that every succeeding president has embraced, including assessing the benefits and costs of alternatives. It also directed agencies to adopt the least burdensome approach to achieving regulatory goals and to embrace flexible regulatory alternatives and market mechanisms in lieu of traditional command and control regulation.

In addition to sector-specific legislation, President Carter signed into law two significant cross-cutting regulatory reform bills. The Regulatory Flexibility Act required agencies to analyze the impact of their regulatory actions on small entities and consider effective alternatives that would minimize those impacts. The Paperwork Reduction Act created the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget to review and approve all new reporting requirements.

President Carter also supported legislation to “make the regulatory analysis called for in Executive Order 12044 a permanent requirement and extend the order to cover the independent regulatory agencies.” He even entertained the need for a regulatory budget to ensure “the first problems addressed are those in which regulations are likely to bring the greatest social benefits.”

Although President Carter did not succeed at getting legislation passed that codified his regulatory analysis requirements, he forged a “rough consensus both inside government and among academic critics on the proper underlying principles for regulatory reform.” Each successive president has built on those principles, and the benefit-cost balancing President Carter championed has become standard practice in federal agencies and is increasingly expected by courts when they review agency regulations.


Reagan on the other hand allowed Wall Street to consolidate and concentrate industry ownership in far fewer hands and build monopolies and duopolies through the stock market and refusing to enforce anti-trust laws, with the one exception of the AT&T suits, so he basically defeated the purpose of deregulation and returned to the previous status quo.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

For starters. PATCO. Regan disbanded mental health asylums and he opened the borders and 30 years later, we get this homeless crisis and illegal aliens. Ronald Regan caused this.

Reagan's original sin is immigration policy.

Orange Man fine tuned this, and the Left forever despises him for it haha

 

[shockedcanadian]

For starters. PATCO. Regan disbanded mental health asylums and he opened the borders and 30 years later, we get this homeless crisis and illegal aliens. Ronald Regan caused this.

Damn I miss Reagan. Looked, sounded and operated like a global leading American president. He called out civil liberty abuses wherever they existed, even influencng Canada heavily in this regard. Hit allies such as Japan with 100% tariffs to protect U.S industries and punish Japan for IP theft and Japan still loved America, even became closer. The man was the quissessential leader. Visiting (and walking) ths Jesus path and visiting Reagans grave are both lifelong dreams of mine to one day hopefully accomplish.