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  • Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

  • The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?

  • It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

    School   Safety   Green  
  • Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors!

    Tape   Red   Way  
    Twitter post from Aug 7, 2014
  • Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

    "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm". www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.
  • I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.

    Thinking   Ideas   Two  
    "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.
  • Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

    Jobs   Taken   Tape  
    "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.
  • In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

    Order   People   Tape  
    "Corey Clark says Paula Abdul 'Told me she loved me'", www.mtv.com. May 06, 2005.
  • Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

    Competition   Tape   Cost  
  • Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

    Effort   Community   Tape  
  • I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

  • I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

    Red Lipstick   Tape   Way  
    "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.
  • We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

    Jobs   Government   Needs  
    "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.
  • People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

    Running   Nice   Thinking  
  • We must continue to liberalise the single market, cut red tape and basically create a digital single market. We have not completed the single market yet, there is not sufficient free movement of goods, labour, services and money. We have to keep on working at that against all the protectionist tendencies that we have right now.

    Cutting   Tape   Movement  
  • I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or three days. Maybe those were the days we had to walk around the summit of Vesuvius, and we went around to the sulfur pits where the ground is bubbling. It's near here. It's fantastic.

    Thinking   Two   Three  
    "David Gilmour Talks Pompeii Return: 'It's a Place of Ghosts'". Interview with Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. July 7, 2016.
  • All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

    Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta
  • We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.

    Growth   Expansion   Tape  
  • The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

  • You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

    Mom   Dream   Growing Up  
  • I look at some of the things that Donald Trump will do around cutting red tape, reducing bureaucracy, helping entrepreneurs, helping businesses grow more rapidly, more access to capital - I'm all for it. That's all stuff that I've been trying to do in Colorado.

    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.

  • If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

    Dying   Tape   Red  
  • My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

    Jobs   Mean   Cutting  
  • I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

    "Obama Announces GM, Chrysler Restructuring Plan (FULL TEXT)", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.
  • Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

    Hands   Feet   Office  
    Charles Dickens (1863). “David Copperfield”, p.276
  • The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality. ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

    Reality   Needs   Tape  
  • When these people are going to put billions and billions of dollars into companies, and when they're going to bring $2.5 trillion back from overseas, where they can't bring the money back, because politicians like Secretary Hillary Clinton won't allow them to bring the money back, because the taxes are so onerous, and the bureaucratic red tape, so what - is so bad.

    People   Dollars   Tape  
    "Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University". "NBC Nightly News", www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.
  • A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

  • I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

    Book   People   Liberty  
    Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.101, Applewood Books
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