MONTANA

Entrepreneurs only bring products to market if they expect to recover their costs and make a reasonable return. If the City imposes “affordable price” requirements, builders will respond by building fewer homes in Bozeman. Instead they’ll focus on positive returns outside the city. Further, artificially lowering home prices will increase the demand for them. Then politicians get to decide who gets the limited homes available at below market rates. They are the real winners.

“We’ve got the fastest growing economy in America, the fastest three years in (state) history and the whole world is coming to an end,” Schweitzer said in an interview. “We’re doing everything wrong.”

"If you ask what the problem is and then you come up with a solution reacting to that problem, you have a customer automatically."

The 59th Montana Legislature made funds available to support tribal business development projects, work-force training projects, entrepreneurial training, feasibility studies and other types of economic development projects. The program offers $400,000 annually.

Yes, Montana’s state budget picture is looking good. But we’re not alone in that regard.

the state "essentially has run out of its two-year allocation of $2.6 million in workforce development training money within seven months," he said, and couldn’t match the bigger incentives offered by other states.