I live in a place where the city council has all sorts of leeway on how to apply restaurant regulations when a new business wants to open. And just as you might expect, those who don't have city connections get a lot stricter enforcement of those regulations. Maybe if the US was more Nordic in its government corruption, I'd be more pro-regulation, but I see them abused all the time to keep the insiders rich and the outsiders poor, and the public unprotected.