Regulations stifle growth, Gardner told [ Colorado ]

Grand Junction Media ^ | July 10, 2015 | Gary Harmon

[george76]

A Moffat County sheepherder, Delta hardware shop owner and Grand Junction manufacturer all walked into a meeting Friday with U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., each with much the same punchline in mind.

The common theme: The federal government is reaching too far into their businesses, discouraging them from seeking out new ways of doing business and growing.

Constraining regulations have “taken the creativity out of business,” Jim Kendrick, owner of Delta Hardware, told Gardner. “The move is to make us all do business the same way. That’s stifling growth.”

Gardner met with two dozen western Colorado business and economic leaders at Colorado Mesa University in hopes of finding ways to improve the state’s sputtering rural economy.

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The regulatory burden on Capco Inc., in Grand Junction, already closely watched as a Department of Defense contractor, is steadily increasing, owner and president Steve Wood said.

“I spend all my time on regulatory compliance and none of it on product development,” Wood said, noting that increasing regulatory burdens are more easily met by large competitors who can simply hire additional compliance officers.

Craig-area rancher Steve Raftopoulos said he felt similar pressure from the Labor Department and other agencies.

[Enten]

Good.....I see the Senator is setting up another committee to help fill up the black hole of the Federal government.

[amnestynone]

What they are saying is true. But, I would be a lot more sympathetic if they opposed amnesty and our porus borders. BUsiness (small and large) has got to change there.

[Organic Panic]

Regulations are a jobs programs for unemployable bullies and affirmative action hires. The government loves these people. They grab all the power for the executive branch, enable cronies, and let the little people know where they stand.