ONE REGULATION IS PAINLESS. A MILLION OF THEM HURT: “‘In one year,’ wrote Warren Meyer in 2015, ‘I literally spent more personal time on compliance with a single regulatory issue — implementing increasingly detailed and draconian procedures so I could prove to the State of California that my employees were not working over their 30-minute lunch breaks — than I did thinking about expanding the business or getting new contracts.’”

Related: In Seattle, a minor victory in the left’s war of hyper-regulation: the trash man can’t poke around in your trash anymore.