Regulatory Reform

Small business owners tell us that excessively costly regulations are stifling their ability to succeed and grow. “Regulatory uncertainty” is just one reason employers are reluctant to hire and we are witnessing a jobless recovery. Please take a moment to share YOUR story and help shape reform efforts to restore badly needed balance, restraint, and commonsense to the regulatory process.

According to our most recent Small Business Outlook Survey, over half of our respondents cited economic uncertainty as their most pressing concern. 

America’s Job Creators Need a Clear Direction
A dramatic increase in burdensome regulation by the Congress and administration is causing tremendous uncertainty for business owners around the country. The path to recovery lies in bringing certainty to the regulatory environment and putting in place smart policies that allow American businesses and the economy to grow.

But in today’s difficult economic climate—with high unemployment, sluggish growth, crumbling infrastructure, and tough global competition—it’s critical that Congress and the administration recognize that the regulatory burden and uncertainty they have imposed on job creators has reached a tipping point.

The cumulative impact of decades of regulations is like lead weights on America’s footrace to prosperity. We’ve seen a dramatic acceleration of regulations, rulemakings, and mandates. Taken together, they are breeding crippling uncertainty, quashing individual initiative, delaying and obstructing the rebuilding of America, and eroding our global competitiveness.

We have wandered too far off the path envisioned by our Founding Fathers of a government with few and defined powers. Government was supposed to be about doing only a few things; today government is about doing nearly everything. It has intruded in our business and personal lives in ways unimaginable to the wise men who gathered in Philadelphia in the sweltering summer of 1787. And to increasingly little positive benefit.

Our Project on Regulatory Reform works to continually tell the story to the American people about the massive costs of procedural defects and excessive regulations on jobs and on their personal and economic freedom. 

To learn more about the regulatory burdens our country is facing, browse the cases and information below.