Issue Position: Relief for Small Businesses

Issue Position

State and local governments make it much harder than it should be to start your own business. Both native citizens and immigrants often wish they could start a business, but get frightened away by the mountain of red tape, fees, and regulations.

Politicians do this partly to protect well-connected businesses by shielding them from new, lower-priced competition. Government should not pick winners and losers.
I want to make it easier to start a business in Texas by reducing the power of government to get in the way.

Steps I would take:

I would file legislation to reduce the power of cities to use permitting ordinances to limit and block businesses.

I would file legislation to repeal many anti-competitive occupational licensing laws.

I would file a bill to prohibit local governments from using tax subsidies to pick winners and losers.

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