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Also many Americans - including many here on HN - reflexively oppose regulation. That's one reason regulator's budgets are cut (and now GOP-appointed judges are hamstringing the 'administrative state). And then when a private business does something wrong, the same people ask, 'where are the regulators'?


From 2016 [1] to 2023 [2], the FAA's budget went from $16.2 billion to $24.0 billion, an increase of 48% against a CPI increase of only 26%.

[1]: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/miss...

[2]: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2023-03/F...


Yup.

> reflexively oppose regulation

"Regulations" is just a scary word for "rules".




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