Issue Position: Economic Growth and Freedom

Issue Position

Missouri should review all regulations to ensure that those regulations are truly in place to safeguard the public good. All too often, powerful special interests capture the regulatory system and create regulations that confer benefits on the special interest or impose costs on new market entrants who might want to compete against the special interest. A good example of this is the tendency of the state to require too many credentials to engage in routine business practices. Many licensing requirements do not enhance public safety, but merely serve to discourage competition and impose additional costs on the provision of services. If we want our state to prosper we should stop throwing up barriers between new businesses and their first customer

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