Rick Perry presidential campaign, 2016/Government regulations

	; ; Former presidential candidate; Rick Perry
	Political offices: ; Governor of Texas; (2000-2015); Lieutenant Governor of Texas; (1998-2000); Texas Agriculture Commissioner; (1990 - 1998); Texas House of Representatives; (1984-1990)
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	Republican candidate:
	Donald Trump
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Rick Perry announced his presidential run on June 4, 2015.^[1]

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On July 29, 2015, Rick Perry discussed his vision for Wall Street reform. “I want to be very clear: if I am elected president of the United States, we will not bail out a single bank on Wall Street,” Perry said. He also applauded the Federal Reserve’s new rule requiring larger banks to maintain large stores of capital and the potential of digital currencies like Bitcoin.^[2]^[3]

On May 5, 2015, Perry wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal detailing why the U.S. Export-Import Bank should not be reauthorized. Perry stated, "We won’t be able to give businesses more regulatory latitude if we continue to operate a government bank with an emerging record of corporate corruption. And that is why the time has come to end the Export-Import Bank. We can’t let Ex-Im get in the way of reforms that would expand opportunity for all Americans."^[4]

Perry released a series of ads in 2013 to encourage out-of-state businesses to relocate to Texas for its low regulatory and tax environment. In one of these ads criticizing New York state, Perry said, "The new New York sounds a lot like the old New York. Higher taxes. Stifling regulations. Bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp."^[5]

In October 2011, Perry spoke at an event for the Johnson County Republicans, lauding the power of deregulation to improve the economy and create jobs. Perry added, "Stop strangling the American domestic-energy industry with regulations, and we again can become a country that not only the rest of the world respects–because we [will] become a powerful economic country again."^[6]

In a 2011 op-ed published by the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Perry suggested Texas has thrived under his administration's leadership notwithstanding the Obama administration's government interventions. Perry wrote, "In spite of the widespread misery created by this president, in Texas, we've found ways to clean up Washington's mess. Most importantly, we've rejected the over-taxing, over-spending, over-regulating philosophy that does nothing but kill jobs. As Governor, I've signed 65 tax cuts totaling more than $14 billion. I was the first governor to cut state spending since World War II. And we've passed sweeping lawsuit reforms, including a loser pay law, and fought Washington's intrusive job-killing regulations."^[7]

In August 2011, Rick Perry sharply criticized Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, for attempting to use the Federal Reserve to influence the 2012 election. Perry stated that it would be "almost treacherous–or treasonous in my opinion" to be "printing money to play politics." Republican strategist Karl Rove]criticized Perry's comment as "not...a presidential statement."^[8]

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