{"id":22498,"date":"2015-02-24T16:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22498"},"modified":"2015-02-24T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:26:01","slug":"fed-regs-may-level-playing-field-between-california-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22498\/fed-regs-may-level-playing-field-between-california-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed Regs May Level Playing Field between California &#038; Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas has long been held up as the free market alternative to California\u2019s regulation-heavy approach to public policy. Companies like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/general-news\/20130503\/raytheon-moving-its-el-segundo-headquarters-staff-to-texas \" target=\"_blank\">Raytheon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/autos\/la-fi-toyota-move-20140429-story.html#page=1 \" target=\"_blank\">Toyota<\/a> have relocated because of the cheaper price of doing business, as have thousands of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>But the competitive advantage that Texas enjoys over California could come to a screeching halt if the federal government imposes California-style regulations on the states.<\/p>\n<p>The description of a March 12 event in Houston explains the threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia\u2019s tough environmental rules and planning represent the wave of the future to many planners and pundits, as well as to large parts of the federal government,\u201d says the <a href=\"http:\/\/opportunityurbanism.org\/2015\/02\/texas-doomed-to-repeat-californias-mistakes\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Center for Opportunity Urbanism<\/a>. \u201cThe goal is to rein in \u2018sprawl,\u2019 based largely on questionable environmental and urban design considerations. California consciously seeks to impose a high-density, transit-focused future on the residents of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It continues, \u201cBut California\u2019s policies do not just affect Californians. Many federal agencies, including the EPA and US Fish and Wildlife Service, have embraced the Golden State\u2019s regulations on climate change, wetland and endangered species protections, as role models to be adopted nationally. As California-style regulations diffuse through the federal government, Texas business could soon be subject to many of the same programs and policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a good reminder that vigilance at the federal level is necessary to protect economic freedom back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas has long been held up as the free market alternative to California\u2019s regulation-heavy approach to public policy. Companies like Raytheon and Toyota have relocated because of the cheaper price of doing business, as have thousands of individuals. But the competitive advantage that Texas enjoys over California could come to a screeching halt if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,608,1450,300,561],"class_list":["post-22498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-epa","tag-federal","tag-regulation","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22502,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions\/22502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}