CAPITOL Paterson targets rules that hinder business BY MICHAEL GORMLEY The Associated Press
Gov. David Paterson’s latest executive order aims to cut red tape that businesses have long said discourages development and job growth in New York. Paterson on Friday ordered his agencies to identify and eliminate or revise outdated and burdensome rules and regulations. He’s starting with regulations on businesses, local governments, health care providers and other public and private entities. Changes could take months. The move is already worrying environmental advocates and others who argue the rules and regulations are necessary to protect the environment as well as public health and safety. “I would be very nervous about cutting anything that protects your drinking water, air quality, your occupational health and safety, and those are things in the crosshairs of this executive order,” said Robert Moore, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York. But the Democratic governor, facing election next year, is taking on a decades-long concern for business in New York. “Governor Paterson’s proposal on state regulatory reform rightly recognizes that state government needs to remove obstacles to private sector job growth in order for New York’s economy to recover,” Kenneth Adams, president and CEO of the Business Council of New York State, said in a written statement. In its annual ranking, Forbes magazine ranked New York among the most expensive states for business, with 20 other states imposing fewer regulations.
Governor, I fear it's too little too late to keep businesses here. The state can't even keep residents here in NYS because all the legislatures do is enact more taxes such as: forcing residents to get new license plates, double all fees, and refuse to cap property taxes and this helps to keep residents and businesses here how?
What a joke. The very existence of such a bloated monolith threatens liberty and prosperity on every level.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Just a little too late there gov. Who will be left in this state to work in these private sector businesses? People are fleeing this state ata record rate. No one will be left to buy their goods! With the highest taxed states in the country coupled with a tax and spend government......yup...a little tooooo late mr.gov. But good try anyway. Clearly won't win you another next term.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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