The stage is set for Montana to begin reversing this trend in 2022. Rule notices indicate the Red Tape Relief Initiative has already spurred large reductions in the state’s regulatory burden.
Montana has the opportunity to take the lead reducing harmful red tape and lifting up the least fortunate, while preserving regulations needed to protect consumers.
While regulation is necessary in some cases to protect health, safety and the environment, the accumulation of thousands of regulations has been shown to stifle economic growth and substantially increase the cost of doing business.
The Cahoons’ story is a stark reminder of how excessive red tape can crush the dreams of entrepreneurs and stifle innovative solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges.
By focusing on enabling citizens to control their lives, governments will provide the maximum freedom for innovators, disruptors and entrepreneurs to do what they do best and solve society’s problems.
There are laws all over the books in Montana that don’t match up to the way folks access health care now.
In addressing Montana’s workforce shortage, Gianforte is right to focus on making apprentice-to-journeyman ratios more flexible for employers.
Instead of trying and likely failing to get in the internet business themselves local officials should be focused on eliminating government barriers to hasten buildout.
Reducing restrictive regulation could allow for Montanans to reap the benefits of lower hearing aid costs and provide greater access to rural communities.
While often implemented with good intentions, studies show that regulations increase the cost of doing business and hamper economic growth.
Excessive red tape can crush the dreams of young entrepreneurs and stifle innovative solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges.
Solving environmental problems requires more than just spending money. It takes political courage to slash decades of built-up red tape standing in the way of the innovators and entrepreneurs who are ready to take on the challenge.
Montana has the second-most regulatory restrictions per capita among its regional neighbors, trailing only Wyoming and being well ahead of Colorado, Idaho and Utah.
We all lose out when harmful regulations crush innovations that could help our environment.