Businesses driven away by NM laws

IMPROVING THE business climate of N.M. requires creating a good environment for businesses and workers to thrive. A robust economy will go a long way to improving the quality of life in our beautiful state.

So end these obstacles that raise the cost of business: 1. Dictating what kind of bag a business uses. 2. Taxing employees and businesses for paid “family leave.” 3. Keeping the governor’s emergency powers act for years after the pandemic is over. 4. Weakening the electrical grid by closing power plants so no industry wants to expand here. 5. Failing to fix the malpractice insurance mess that is driving doctors away, thus restricting health care to citizens.

Elements that attract people to N.M. and retain businesses, employees and families include good schools, good health care, low crime rates and safe neighborhoods. So why not do these things? 1. Stop giving away free college to the refugees of our failed public schools and instead give K-12 vouchers for parents to use for any school — competition always improves quality. 2. Cap malpractice claims at $1 million for both hospitals and outpatient facilities. 3. Stop illegal immigration and the flow of fentanyl and meth across our southern boarder. 4. Enforce the vagrancy laws and cancel the free bus service that allow criminals to prey on every neighborhood in Albuquerque.

Our state has so much potential. It is so disappointing to see businesses and professionals driven away by laws that devalue the lives of working families and their children but favor the lives of meth heads and bums. MARSHALL JORDAN

Albuquerque