On each of the last 13 days before the Nov. 2010 election, I'm offering a
new idea, thought or comment on how we can better position Wisconsin
for brighter day of economic prosperity and job growth.
12 Days Until Election Day: Regulation
To put people to work and better our state’s
economy, I support major reforms to our regulatory environment to
strengthen statutes to consider the cost impact of regulations on
employers. Business owners and managers tell me about the representatives of our
state government who pay visits to their facility to enforce state
regulations. Too often the themes of their anecdotes are about
regulators with an adversarial attitude; regulators setting arbitrary
and even contradictory requirements based on a personal interpretation
of rules; and regulators with no concept that, in business, time is
money. People who have worked in other states often attest to
Wisconsin having earned a national reputation for a hostile business
regulatory environment. We can and must see the day when a restaurant manager or a
factory manager sees a state employee come through the door and thinks,
“Here comes my partner.”
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