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should be, but has indicated that the state should assist local governments wherever possible.
Regulation Review The state, he added, should undertake a comprehensive review of government regulations to determine whether they are a hindrance to business and industry. In particular, he wrote, the state should review housing and environmental regulations to determine whether they should be modified. “In a time of crisis,” he said, "we cannot afford the luxury of governmental regulations which burden the private sector without providing adequate, offsetting benefits in aid of the public good.” In the area of agriculture, he cited counterproductive government regulations as a factor in driving up the cost of farming, and cited his opposition to the “adverse wage rule”, a federal regulation that requires farmers to pay higher wages to foreign Workers than to domestic workers. Although the rule is supposed to encourage hiring domestic workers, he said, it usually leads to higher prices, since there are often no! enough domestic workers and, subsequently, foreign workers are hired at highei wage rages:
He has indicated support for the land use tax, which the state established in 1971 and which allows local governments, at their option, to tax farmland at its use value, rather than at its fair market value, thereby giving farmers tax benefits that allow them to continue farming.
Mr. Robb also indicated, in a mid-September plan or natural resources, that the state should help loca governments “througf enabling legislation anc advisory assistance”.
Dillon Rule
In the same plan, he in dicated that localities ar often frustrated by the Dilloi Rule, which holds that th powers of local government
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