I always wonder who is saying things like "reasonable regulations"

Do you run your own company and find the regulations dont require you to hire a multi-thousand dollar legal team at every turn?

Are you an internet user that thinks that what the government says wont be exploited?

I worry that my kids will be unable to start businesses due to regulations, or rather their friends wont be able to start businesses. I am a top 4%er and I'll simply pay for the legal teams needed. I know my competition making 40k/yr cannot.

I'll tell you, I've worked for a business small enough to avoid needing to hire a "multi-thousand dollar legal team" and a few of the things that I know happened while I was there leave me very suspicious of the things I didn't know about.

> Are you an internet user that thinks that what the government says won't be exploited?

Nope, I'm a normal person, not actually a strawman. As long as there's government, it will be exploited; but, you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater by arguing that because people will exploit loopholes, we should eliminate (all) regulations. Instead of supporting a representative that tries to eliminate two regulations for every new one, how about supporting a half-intelligent representative?

You're worried people won't be able to start businesses? Where is Facebook's big competition? Can your kids' friends start a business now to compete with Facebook? No -- so why are you worried that they won't be able to do something in the future that they can't do now?

>Can your kids' friends start a business now to compete with Facebook? No

I disagree with this. I think at the current time they can.

I think you're overestimating how many people who don't read places like Hacker News actually care about this. But I'll admit I could be wrong on that.

In any case, the reason they might be able to at the current time is the blood in the water from the "reasonable regulations" people.