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• Gov. Vessey was right. It's the nature of government to add to the body of laws. When someone is running for office others tend to ask, "If elected, what will you do?" Elected officials sometimes take that to mean, "What law will you pass?" And we sometimes measure productivity by the number of bills that we pass. 
• But when it comes to laws, more isn't always better. We shouldn't place unnecessary hurdles before our citizens or entrepreneurs, and things shouldn't be overly complicated for people who are trying to know and obey laws. 
• With legislators' help, we've already gone a long way in removing unnecessary red tape in state government. During the 2012 and 2013 legislative sessions, we repealed 378 unneeded rules and 919 obsolete sections of law, totaling more than

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