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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

It's all about elimination of all federal regulations:

Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) Article I Restoration Act, which would sunset all regulations after 3 years.

Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]

Fucking dinosaurs don't realize that they haven't even printed a yellow pages in around a decade. Last time I received one it was like 30 pages long for a major city.

Talk about pandering to their elderly base. Most Gen Z probably don't even know what a "yellow pages" is.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the republican party head quarters are on yellowpages.com - i think they should lead by example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm agreeing with you - they must be drunk.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Require the federal government to have a “yellow pages test.” If a good or service can be found in the “yellow pages,” government should not be doing it.[14]

That is the dumbest idea I've heard today

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Of course, they're all for federal regulations when it comes to limiting transgender people getting medical care.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's the phone book right? or is it different

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Play them at their own game by listing a child starving service in the Yellow Pages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

BRB, going to start my own CIA and undercut the original by outsourcing the majority of the work to Bangalore for cheap labour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The yellow pages test comes from a dead libertarian Austrian "Economist". Kinda interesting since he died in 1995 and the school of economics he followed was already obsolete when it came out in the 1930s.

This stuff is part of the reason why age does matter in elected office. People get ideas and they don't let them go even long after they have been disproven.