The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board on October 09, 2019.
President Trump has cut enough red tape in office to suffice for 100 golf course grand openings. In his first two years, the regulatory budget showed $33 billion in savings, according to the White House. An official tally isn’t out for fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30, but the American Action Forum estimates another $8.5 billion in savings.
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Trey Malone and Bryan McFadden on October 08, 2019.
Substitutes for traditional meat products have captured the attention of investors, the media and consumers. Plant-based meat options are showing up in grocery stores and on the menus at fast food chains like Burger King and restaurants like TGI Fridays…
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Vicki Kraft on October 11, 2019.
During the final three days of the 105-day legislative session in April, more than $2 billion in new and higher taxes were approved. These included new and increased business and occupation taxes on more than 90,000 employers and certain banks, a graduated real estate excise tax on both residential and commercial sales, a higher tax on oil, ending the sales tax exemption for Oregonians and changing it into an annual remittance program…
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Emily Canal on October 10, 2019.
There’s more than just desert sand and scorching heat in Arizona’s state capital. Phoenix is finally getting its due as a haven for entrepreneurs…
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Susan E. Dudley on October 10, 2019.
President Trump signed two executive orders yesterday aimed at constraining agencies’ use of “guidance documents.” The first, Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents, sets forth standards for developing new guidance and making existing guidance accessible online. The second, with the weighty title Promoting the Rule of Law Through Transparency and Fairness in Civil Administrative Enforcement and Adjudication, establishes principles for using guidance in civil enforcement…
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin on October 7, 2019.
One of the most remarkable accomplishments of the Trump Administration has been the U-turn it executed on the regulatory front. Recall that over the 8 years of the Obama Administration, it finalized a costly regulation ($100 million or more in burdens on the private sector) at an average rate of 1.1 per day, for a total cost to the private sector of over $890 billion. The avalanche of regulatory costs was different in scale, but not character, from previous administrations: the regulatory state only ever expanded…
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Matt Everson on September 20th, 2019.
Despite warnings by some of an impending recession, Iowa’s small businesses are still thriving. It’s a fact I’d like to remind members of the U.S. Senate as they consider legislation that would treat hard-working small business owners like criminals. The bill that would subject small businesses owners across Iowa to a new level of over-regulation.
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John Ryan on September 28, 2019.
Recently the House recently unanimously approved legislation that would enhance the ability of state and federal regulators to coordinate the examinations of a bank’s technology vendor. I urge the Senate to do the same…
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Gene Marks on September 23, 2019.
The economy today remains strong, but we all know that’s not going to last forever. When the next downturn comes – and it will come – it’s inevitable that some small-business owners, for whatever reason, are going to face bankruptcy…
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Jeff Foust on September 26, 2019.
A Senate appropriations bill that funds the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal year 2020 also called on the agency to revise its approach to streamlining commercial launch and regulatory regulations…
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