[thereisnospork]

If you have to cut red tape for certain projects, the tape probably shouldn't exist in the first place.

edit: for instance, if you have e.g. an environmental regulation that is so onerous that exemptions must be doled out for something as sensible as train electrification, then you don't have an environmental review regulation, you have a 'build nothing except what the exemptor decrees' regulation. Which is rather antithetical to the rule of law and good governance.

[Dalewyn]

As a former Californian, you try saying that and you'll be labeled a crazy person railing against the machine.

Bureaucracies everywhere tend to protect itself, but California's is particularly vicious. There is a reason many of us call the place Commiefornia.