"I don't see why this type of government intervention should worry anyone."
Regulation disproportionately burdens small players. If other drafts of restaurant legislation don't exempt small players, my favorite restaurants (and my friends that run them) get a big headache.
Regulation seems to swell unless it is violently opposed. I've been locked out of exciting things by it personally (international trade), and seen it killing the things I love (eccentric houses, innovation, hiking trails) in my few short years of adulthood.
I like this regulation. But I'm going to holler mightily if it tries to get any bigger.
I think restaurants with 15 or more outlets stopped being the little guy a while ago. There is a lot of poorly done regulation that hinders the little guy but that's more an execution detail than a basic fault of regulation.
I feel that critiques of regulation focusing on quantity instead of quality miss the mark. Regulation to protect and empower consumers usually differs substantially from regulation designed to create barrers to entry. Regulation protecting the environment and other third parties can have barrier-type consequences, especially if its creation is influenced by corporate lobbyists, but it's certainly possible to do well.
What we need is intelligently designed regulation; more "source lines of legislation" isn't necessarily worse, if it covers edge cases well.
The real problem, of course, is the incentive structure for the people who vote on the legislation. It needs fixing, probably by some large, concerted effort of very smart people and a national referendum.
Regulation disproportionately burdens small players. If other drafts of restaurant legislation don't exempt small players, my favorite restaurants (and my friends that run them) get a big headache.
Regulation seems to swell unless it is violently opposed. I've been locked out of exciting things by it personally (international trade), and seen it killing the things I love (eccentric houses, innovation, hiking trails) in my few short years of adulthood.
I like this regulation. But I'm going to holler mightily if it tries to get any bigger.