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I'm guessing the decision to kill the regulation was not made after a careful cost-benefit analysis with consideration of alternatives such as government stockpiling, assuring supply chain surge capacity, etc.; it was probably part of a general purge of pending regulations (easier to kill them than to undo existing regulations) based on the philosophy that:

government regulation = usually bad
government regulation promulgated by the Obama administration = incredibly bad without question.

[oldalum]

I'm guessing the decision to kill the regulation was not made after a careful cost-benefit analysis with consideration of alternatives such as government stockpiling, assuring supply chain surge capacity, etc.; it was probably part of a general purge of pending regulations (easier to kill them than to undo existing regulations) based on the philosophy that:

government regulation = usually bad
government regulation promulgated by the Obama administration = incredibly bad without question.