Don Brunell - Government by regulation

Our founding fathers envisioned a government by the people. In fact, in his Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln concluded with the words, “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

In the last few years, we’ve forgotten Lincoln’s words. We now have government by regulation, and it is paralyzing our nation.

The growing mountain of costly, overlapping and often conflicting government regulations at the federal, state and local levels has stymied growth as investors sit on the sidelines waiting for more certainty.

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