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| Pro-Growth Reform Is the Best Path to Affordability |
| Lawsuit abuse and red tape drive up costs. |
The affordability crisis squeezing American families isn't just about interest rates or grocery prices—it's a supply problem. We can't build enough homes, produce enough energy, or launch enough projects.
- U.S. Chamber President and CEO Suzanne Clark stated it plainly at the Milken Global Conference this week: "Business needs certainty if they want to build, and a lot of the affordability crisis is a supply constraint."
Why it matters: Every family feeling the squeeze at the grocery store or gas station is paying the price for a system that makes it harder and slower to build, grow, and compete.
Be smart: Getting America back to 3% economic growth—the kind that lifts wages, creates opportunity, and strengthens communities—requires pro-growth policies.
- Permitting reform would increase housing and energy supplies. “Your typical [federal] permit takes five to seven years to obtain,” Clark said. That's not a process, that's a roadblock.
- The legal system is a hidden cost impacting families, Clark explained: "We have a broken trial lawyer system that's costing American families $4,200 a year. It makes health insurance more expensive.”
Bottom line: 5.6 million Americans bet on themselves last year and started a business. We need to help them succeed. Cut permitting delays. Stop lawsuit abuse. Let builders build, and job creators create. That's the path to affordability.
Dig deeper: “If we want long-term economic growth—3% growth that lifts up families and communities in the country and helps pay off debt. If we want all of that, we have to take some of these structural issues really seriously,” Clark said on Bloomberg TV’s Balance of Power. |
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