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The implication in "Small business needs less regulation survive because big businesses are capable of affording regulation" is that big businesses can easily blow the small businesses out of the water without breaking a sweat. Which is to say, if your argument is true, small businesses are shit out of luck no matter what happens. If you get rid of regulation, big businesses use that windfall to price small business out of the market. They can afford to pay for better employees, and they can afford to sell their services for less. So if you are right, and the old myth about small businesses being victimized by regulation is correct, than it don't matter because those same small businesses will fail in a free market. What you get now is unregulated big businesses free to run rampant across the little guy.

As for the TPP, I'm sure Libertarians have their own pet reason for not liking it, but the main reason the common folk are quoting is that it makes it easier for American industry to use overseas labor. And it is that borderless commerce that the term "Free market" actually means. Adam Smith didn't give a fuck about taxation or environmental regulation, his deal was the ability for goods and labor to compete equally with that produced overseas. 
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I don't feel like it's a matter of regulation vs. non-regulation so much as it is disliking certain policies. I, for one, am all for government's prevention of the formation of monopolies, among other things... But again, that might be my near-centrism talking.