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Originally Posted by texassapper

And which SpaceX billionaire would benefit from this kind of deregulation?

Conflict of interest?

And which SpaceX billionaire would benefit from this kind of deregulation?

Conflict of interest? Originally Posted by txdot-guy

Yeah only one guy in the entire would benefit from deregulation.

Yeah only one guy in the entire would benefit from deregulation. Originally Posted by texassapper

No but putting Musk in charge of deregulation is putting the fox in charge of the hen house.

His businesses have to comply with these regulations and he has a large financial incentive to create and follow only those regulations that don’t interfere with his business. Regardless of the outcome to the public at large.

It’s a perfect example of the kind of patronage system that Trump and the conservatives are trying to implement in Washington.

They don’t like the bureaucratic system we have now and are under the illusion that staffing the government with loyalists will somehow make things better.