States compete for investment, jobs, and residents. Taxes matter, but so does regulation. Every new mandate consumes resources and management attention that could have been used to expand a business or hire…
The Problem: A State Buried in Red TapeWest Virginia has accumulated one of the heaviest regulatory burdens in the nation. According to the State RegData project, the state now has 131,007 regulatory restrictions on the books…
There is a particular kind of political folly that manages to be simultaneously expensive, unnecessary and self-inflicted. The U.K. government’s proposed dynamic alignment with European Union (EU) Sanitary and Phytosanitary…
Municipal regulations like zoning ordinances can infringe on private property rights and distort the housing market. Key points: Private property rights are under threat from municipal zoning ordinances and design mandates.…
In recent years, states across the country have taken renewed interest in reviewing longstanding and often outdated regulatory frameworks. Many legislatures are reassessing rules that may constrain economic growth, aiming to…
House Bill 1834 (HB 1834), introduced by Representative Callan, aimed at protecting minors online, is a prime example of government going too far. While safeguarding children online from inappropriate content is everyone’s…
The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Katherine Scarlett told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the “regulatory pendulum” and “excessive” CEQ regulations have burdened the United States for “far too long.”The…
How should AI be regulated, and who gets to decide? These are questions that seem certain to become dominant stories throughout 2026.To this point in its development, the AI industry and its datacenters have been able to…
For decades, the image of government regulation has been synonymous with dusty, overflowing binders and legal jargon. State regulatory codes tend to accumulate year after year, sometimes contradicting themselves and…
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