It's About Time to Cut the Red Tape

Below is an editorial published in AMPOL EAGLE following a press conference Sen. Ortt held to cut red tape:

We’re all criminals and probably don’t know it. That’s the crux of the problem in America where legislators seem to love nothing more than passing a law with their name or the name of a constituent on it. Never mind if it is a good law or a necessary law.

And, that’s why we criminals who have never been caught saw a glimmer of hope in a recent announcement by NY State Senator Rob Ortt.

Ortt joined local business advocates and employees of Audubon Machinery at the North Tonawanda factory to push for his proposed Red Tape Reduction Act, which would cut red tape and allow businesses to thrive.

Ortt says the Red Tape Reduction Act will be one of his top legislative priorities moving forward. The legislation currently sits in the Rules Committee.

And he says the legislation would help to improve New York State’s economic environment by eliminating or amending existing, duplicative state regulations when a new one is adopted. In the end, this would offset the projected cost of a newly adopted regulation on a business.

President & CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership Dottie Gallagher-Cohen said, “Employers across Buffalo Niagara consistently rank New York’s high taxes and crushing regulations as the number one obstacle to job growth and business expansion. The Red Tape Reduction Act is not a silver bullet, but it will force Albany to think twice before adding yet another job-killing regulation to the books.”

We hope other legislators sign on to Ortt’s legislation and start to move New York in a new direction, one unfettered by government bureaucracies and the onerous regulations and laws that flow from Albany.