We heard from small businesses that they face too much red tape.

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Too much red-tape and compliance is a waste of money and it usually leads to fewer loans rather than more.

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There also were complaints of too much bureaucratic red tape.

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The country is blessedly free of red tape, too.

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Sounds like they may want to cut little pieces of duct tape for their phones too.

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Of course, if the red tape has gone, so too has the cushion it provided for farmers' incomes.

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By the end, too sick to write, he dictated notes into a tape recorder.

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"I think they are taking some action, but it's too late, the information is already out there on that tape, " he said.

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Duct tape can save your life in other ways, too.

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They talk to people without cameras or tape recorders in the background and they have their own businesses, too.

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This cutting of red tape has delighted business - and doubtless those wanting a roof extension, too - but green groups and civic groups fear that the new system has handed power to a quango from politicians and people.

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