Nobody agrees on thet, except in the very narrow definition of everyone knowing at least one regulation they'd personally abolish (the lefty choosing marijuana, the right "all of them")

I've investigated the same complaint for EU law and all you can find is bizarre propaganda making ridiculous claims in bad faith – they make the regs sound absurd, but you can find out the real purpose within half a minute of googling.

Famous example: requiring Cucumbers (bananas etc.) to conform to a certain shape, including curvature for different quality grades. Reasoning: the retail industry wanted it (they couldn't agree on a common standard), it helps trade by establishing standard grades. It's also been repealed as a result of the populist pressure, but by then everyone had been using it and they just continued.

Yeah the cucumbers are an excellent example and within the EU, or at least Germany the most ridiculed one. People here don't care that much about the curvature. In fact imperfect vegetables are considered more organic by many people. On the other hand cucumbers with not so good curvature get thrown away, increasing food prices.

The thing is this: most laws were invented with good intentions and reasoning behind. But that doesn't mean they thought well enough about them.

Nobody has ever promoted removing all regulations, not even Republicans.

Being that specific is harmful to parties. Better to just always say there are "too many" and stop there.

>Everybody knows that there are too many government regulations, people across the whole political spectrum agree on that

But they don't agree on which ones should be removed. It's why "everybody knows" Congress is terrible but they keep getting re-elected. It's because everyone likes their representatives but hate all the others.

>But they don't agree on which ones should be removed.

So they might want to start a program for that. Or they could start with one type of laws.

>It's why "everybody knows" Congress is terrible but they

>keep getting re-elected.

What would be the alternative? No Congress? ;) I mean it's there and it should certainly be improved.

> It's because everyone likes their representatives but hate all the others.

It seems so in the US, but in Europe there is also a trend towards this highly polarized direction. I hope people would take things easier and maybe try to understand the other politicians as well. For instance one could watch both CNN and Fownews. ;)