SYDNEY, June 25 -- Red tape, one of the politic's softest targets, faces a new bonfire from Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised to "bust regulatory congestion" - congestion being his favourite hate word.

The announced was hailed by the Institute of Public Affairs, saying red tape cut economic output by an estimated $176 billion a year.

It was as if no one, except Donald Trump, had ever thought of attacking red tape before.

Have they forgotten Tony Abbott already?

A bit over five years ago the then PM held the first of a series of Repeal Days in which, amid much chest-thumping, 12 bills repealing 9500 regulations and 1000 acts of parliament were introduced.

Senior bureaucrats were even turned int...