To the Editor:
Both your publication and the new secretary of the state seem to have missed the point, yet again.
What we need isn’t yet another “One-Stop” business fix.
What we need is far fewer agencies, and far less regulations and far less red tape to contend with in our state.
Perhaps if we got rid of all of these less than necessary agencies, that come up with all of these less than necessary regulations and red tape, we would need far fewer individual web sites and redundant IT people and a significant number of the pending state layoffs would never have had to happen. What’s more the Secretary of State’s office might be able to do with less people and focus its resources on enhancing the private sector’s ability to conduct business rather than document the business it is losing because of all of the intrusions by state agencies.
The state has funded numerous “one-stop” program attempts before. Not just in the business development agencies, but in the employment agencies and their programs, and in the tourism agencies and their programs. Sooner or later they become nothing more than another committee that ultimately becomes an agency that — what do you know — becomes an agency in its own right with costly payroll, expenses and often times real estate and now, of course, a web site. The only thing it doesn’t do is reduce the bureaucratic frenzy and resulting negative effects that any user comes away with.
Again, what we don’t need is another E-portal. What we do need is fewer agencies, regulations and portals to contend with.
Matt Fenichel West SImsbury
