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Huffington Post: Entrepeneurs: Engines of our Economic Growth

11.21.2014

In a piece penned for the Huffington Post by U.S. Representatives Scott Peters (D-Calif. 52), Ron Kind (D-Wis. 3), and Patrick E. Murphy (D-Fla. 18) on the importance of encouraging entrepreneurship, a study by the Progressive Policy Institute was cited as evidence of current regulatory obstructions.

The Federal Code of Regulations numbers nearly 170,000 pages, and more pages are added to the code almost every single day. An analysis by the Progressive Policy Institute shows that the number of pages in the code more than doubled since 1975. We have a choice: We can either grow the mounds of paper that our entrepreneurs have to sift through to launch new ventures, or we can make the code simpler and easier to navigate, allowing our economy to grow and create new jobs.

Read the entire piece at Huffingtonpost.com.