Where to Step Back
Here is what it might look like if government got out of the way of manufacturing.
4. Mandate approval windows. What amount of time is reasonable for a manufacturer seeking to build or modify a plant to get an answer to that request? Whatever the duration, we should enshrine it in law. Here is a mechanism: If the window is, say, 90 days, then a request still unanswered after that time would leave the regulators and be presented to the state or local legislature for vote. Because neither group would want that outcome, the existence of this device would encourage regulators to expedite responses and encourage legislators to scale back regulatory hurdles.
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