A cooldown in Colorado’s outdoor recreation industry, reported recently in The Gazette, is the latest reminder not to put too many eggs in one basket when it comes to the state’s economy. And for our policymakers, that means easing up on economic sectors that are proven performers — so they’re not regulated into ruin.
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Colorado’s economy in general is being strangled by regulations enacted on the pretext of helping workers or the environment or other concerns. What they’ll ultimately do is kill jobs — and opportunity. Back-to-back studies by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce concluded our state is the sixth most regulated in the nation.
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