The wets in the National party will hate me describing their policy as following in Trump’s deregulation footsteps, but that is exactly what they are doing with their announcement that “National will light a regulations bonfire.”
President Donald Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules.
“Remove the anchor dragging us down!” he said when campaigning for president. “We’re going to cancel every needless job-killing regulation!”
Trump was a developer, so he knew that the thicket of rules government imposes often makes it impossible to get things done.
[…] When he took office, he hired regulation skeptics. He told government agencies: Get rid of two regulations for every new one you add.
I think his anti-regulation attitude is why stock prices rose and unemployment dropped. Trump sent a message to business: Government will no longer try to crush you. Businesses then started hiring.
dailysignal.com/2019/08/22/trumps-deregulation-promise/#dear_reader
National has declared that when they are back in government they will repeal 100 regulations in their first six months and will eliminate two old regulations for every new one that they introduce.
Donald Trump’s government has cut approx 5 regulations for every new regulation.
National understands the effect excessive regulations can have on competitiveness and productivity. We want an operating environment where businesses can thrive and aren’t strangled by red tape.
That is straight from the Trump playbook, and Trump’s deregulation policy has helped many businesses in America to grow and to hire more people. Cutting through the red tape is a winning proposition.
“We need to regularly test whether regulations are still needed, remove barriers to new businesses entering markets and streamline unnecessarily slow and expensive bureaucratic procedures.
[…] National will restore business confidence and revive our economy.”
National Press Release
