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The main thing seems to be about pollution and environment. But I already said how government restriction made that actually worse, via Cap-Trade. And the way you can get people to not pollute is by creating private propriety, so for example, someone buys a lake and if someone damages their lake they bought, they can sue for damages. You might be right that were arguing different things, but I still thinks its common sense that all of these bullshit regulations DO hurt small businesses and saying they don't just doesn't make any kind of sense. There's another on a list that forced people to put calorie counts on all items on their menus, which costs a ton of work hours (time = money) to accomplish. Its not always state level, their's flat out bad regulations period.
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The consumer is owed to have a certain level of information to make an appropriate, correct, and appropriately judged purchasing decision. Whether that's knowing the calorie counts in food or the limits of a certain grade of nut and bolt. To have uninformed consumers is to have easily abused consumers, which can be taken advantage of those companies who can, will, or could.

Now you might bitch about how much "time" it takes to jot that down next to the item of choice, but it's the most effective. Yes, I worked in a family business too but guess what: it's harder to learn that stuff and would take much more time or money to educate an employee working there on company time so he may convey to the customer the facts he or she needs to make a smart buying choice. But really he or she may not do that and sell them an inappropriate piece of the stock. And then it all rolls back on the company. And if that thing is faulty in some way leading to personal injury or a health risk then the company will be liable for a injury suit or other which will sure as hell cost more in damages than a simple fine from the county or state.

And it rolls back into what I said earlier about what defines a free market, and really I'd argue that an appropriately educated populace is a more than healthy aspect of a free market. It is as well more than impossible to teach every consumer the specifics of daily products which would in the end probably be another ten to twenty years of education that'll be forgotten.