Fair enough. It's not like there haven't been regulations that cause more harm than good, though--for instance, regulations on pollution that only apply to new

Fair enough. It's not like there haven't been regulations that cause more harm than good, though--for instance, regulations on pollution that only apply to new powerplants, leaving old ones untouched. Libertarianism treats regulation like engineering: Simpler is better, and the ideal solution is the simplest; complicated solutions add more points of failure, which leads to a more broken result.