Workers who work around unsafe conditions?
People who are exposed to carcinogens?
People with respiratory trouble?
Who else should be sacrificed by getting rid of "job killing regulations?" Feel free to suggest your own
It isn't the fact regulations exist that makes them job killers but the way in which they are written and imposed. Most people would not quibble about the desire to provide protections -it is the fact those writing these laws haven't a clue how to write them to achieve that specific goal but without resulting in unintended and very undesirable consequences!
Most regulations do not and cannot make you one iota safer because of this and only end up making it more difficult for business to do business. Regulations that are reactive instead of proactive are actually pretty useless but reactive regulations account for the bulk of them. Regulations that exist primarily to give more bureaucrats a job with more ability to play little dictator with greater and greater levels of unaccounted for and uncalled for power -does nothing but make the things you buy more expensive. But they won't make you any safer.
So the question isn't yours which stupidly assume a phony pretense that the vast majority of regulations make us all safer when the bulk of them do no such thing and is provably false. You are one of the naive who assumes a level of efficiency and productivity for government bureaucrats that does not and has never existed! Of all entities, government is one of the most INEFFICIENT and UNPRODUCTIVE. Think license bureau employees on steroids but without their "charm" and you would be closer to reality when it comes to government bureaucrats wielding the power of enforcing a nonstop increase in government regulations.
The REAL problem with regulations is that when it turns out the newest onslaught of another 1500 page of new regulations doesn't accomplish any of the intended goals of the those who authored and put it into practice and what is far more likely, ends up causing even MORE problems than it was trying to solve -their answer is NEVER to re-visit and throw out the regulations that didn't work, didn't accomplish anything constructive whatsoever, did nothing but further interfere with the ability of companies to do business, expand and hire more employees or made things even worse. Government's ONLY response to seeing failure of government bureaucracy is to add MORE bureaucratic levels and layers to the already existing mess and do so to the point it has caused an incomprehensible pile of crap!
If you were to ask business owners which government regulations they thought were the worst regulations -do you seriously believe they would point to ones that effectively protect us as either consumers or employees? Right off the top let's stop your absolutely silly pretense that companies WANT to inflict bad, poisonous and dangerous products on the public because people like you like to pretend businesses believe selling that kind of product would be a surefire moneymaker for them! (China's poison toys are the result of their government's decisions -not those of a private business and has happened so many times now I believe it was a deliberate act. They sure managed not to sell any of those poisoned toys to their OWN children. Protection from overt and covert hostile acts of a foreign government I absolutely expect from my government.) But who do you think are REALLY the best people to actually write a law intended to provide a very specific kind of protection without resulting in a slew of unwanted and unintended consequences? It isn't government hacks or politicians, most of whom haven't a clue what it takes to run a business or what it takes to try and meet a payroll each and every time!
For example and a PERFECT case in point: the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. This law was crafted for the purpose of trying to prevent any more poisonous toys coming into the country from China which is not the least bit adverse to deliberately selling poisonous toys to our children and has happened repeatedly now showing it is unlikely to be "accidental" rather than deliberate. (Again, a government decision, not that of a private business which don't exist when it comes to international trade in China.) But because those who couldn't cut it in the private sector but love the power of government regulation are the ones writing these laws, the result was such a poorly written, overly broad and generalized law that massively increased government power and regulation -that it would have actually driven everyone who is a crafter doing business out of their home -out of business entirely because they cannot afford to comply with it. A huge outcry before the law was to go in effect resulted in a TEMPORARY stay for home crafters but it is temporary. So unless something is done before this exception expires later this year - expect to see a bunch of empty booths at your next local or state fair -and eventually watch the state fair itself go the way of the dinosaur! Who is really protected by driving people out of business who make their living by selling their homemade crafts? When was the last time you heard about a "dangerous" handmade appliqued T-shirt causing harm to someone? Seriously.
A law intended to protect kids from China's poison toys but will actually drive home crafters out of business entirely is NOT worth the cost of this BADLY WRITTEN piece of crap regulation, sorry! But the assholes who concocted it won't scrap it and try to design a better, more narrowly and specifically written law and will try to expand it on top of this already existing piece of crap law! THAT is how government works because THAT is actually "government mentality" and is the nature of government which says "whatever is wrong will always require MORE government, MORE laws, MORE regulation -never less!" If you believe that to be true too, I think you'd be a perfect fit at the license bureau! But pick someone with actual business experience instead of another government bureaucrat monkey who couldn't cut it in the private sector -and I bet they can figure out how to write a law that keeps China's poison toys in China without killing an entire industry in our own country!
By the way, the notion that businesses are so "predatory" and would gladly sell us all dangerous and bad things as some kind of sure fire moneymaker for them and their evil is such it requires an ever increasing level of government oversight and interference - is ridiculous, but THE favorite picture the left loves to paint of businesses. Businesses, like government are run by PEOPLE and I hope you aren't silly enough to believe that bad people are attracted to business while the good and most intelligent people are attracted to government service! First of all the average level of intelligence of those in government whether elected or a bureaucrat -is no different from the average level of intelligence of the public at large. Meaning they aren't one bit better and smarter than everyone else -but they sure as hell are far more likely to be power hungry egomaniacs!
Competition is one of the best means of regulating MOST bad and dangerous practices because a high rate of injuries/deaths of your employees or selling dangerous, defective and poorly designed products is a surefire way of being driven out of business entirely. It is possible to design specific laws intended to accomplish very specific goals in order to provide the best solution for VERY SPECIFIC PROBLEMS. But the problem is most regulations aren't written to do that and instead are written with as broad a brush as possible. And that is why most of them end up being nothing but make work laws that cost a business time and money they will just pass on to consumers to satisfy some government hack's paperwork -but doesn't make anyone one bit safer either as a consumer or employee -and just ends up doing more harm than any possible good they were intended to do.
