Reduce Regulations

Dear friends, 235 years ago, our forefathers got fed up with unfair taxes and regulations. They dressed up in costumes and staged the Boston Tea Party – dumping 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the imposition of taxes without proper representation. I think they would roll over in their graves if they saw the increasing load of burdensome regulations that are now being placed on the backs of our citizens, businesses and local governments.

Make no mistake! Every regulation has a direct cost in dollars and an indirect cost in loss of freedom! What is even more alarming is that many of these regulations are implemented without adequate, or in some cases without any, elected representative oversight.

This amounts to Taxation by Regulation without Representation.

Many, many times our 8 years in the construction business and in my decades of small business management experience, I and my colleagues have asked the questions: “What is the statistical basis driving the need for this or that regulation? Or, “Where is the study that shows what positive impact this regulation will have?” Over and over we have heard answers like, “There must be a good reason or it would not be proposed.” Or, “We don’t write the regulations, we just implement them.” or “Look, if a 50’ setback is good, a 75’ setback must be better.”

My friends, regulations are too easy to add and too hard to remove. We need to reverse that. We need to make them harder to add and easier to remove.

I am committed to Reduce, Limit and Control Regulations.

I will listen to citizens, professionals and business leaders for their input on the impact of regulations on their lives and their pocketbooks.

I will work hard to assure that we have clear and focused elected representative oversight over all regulations.

I believe that we should require a careful cost/benefit analysis based on hard statistics and citizen testimony before regulations are added or expanded. A kind of “Regulatory Impact Study.” This would have a welcome, chilling affect on unnecessary and unwise regulation.

Unbridled regulations add cost and reduce the freedom of NH citizens.

I am not suggesting we stage a regulation “Tea Party” at the Isinglass River, but I will fight hard against taxation by regulation without representation.

Let’s live free in New Hampshire!

Fellow citizens, I would be honored by your support for my campaign and by your vote on November 4th.

(You can watch Fenton tell you about his commitment to reducing regulations on YouTube! Follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3TTkh61Zqg)

Many thanks to Devin Robinson for his professional filming job! Be watching for more clips coming soon!