Governor Hickenlooper left small business still wondering about the next steps on regulatory reform
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tony Gagliardi, Colorado State Director, [email protected]
or Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, [email protected]
DENVER, Colo., Jan. 11, 2018—Tony Gagliardi, Colorado state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, today, issued the following comment on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s State-of-the-State speech.
“The governor can take some credit for starting the state down the long road to a sensible regulatory environment. However, there is still a lot of work to be done, but business owners didn’t hear from him about the next steps in his State-of-the-State speech.
“Small business welcomes the door he opened for the long overdue discussion about the albatross around the necks of rural Colorado: their tax bases. And, his desire to move our education system from degree-based training to skills-based training is worthy of real consideration since there are already jobs for those who know how to weld or operate a milling machine, but finding qualified applicants is a big problem.”
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Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the National Federation of Independent Business is the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America’s economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges in remaining open.
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