I agree that there is regulation that is needlessly complicated, but there are also a lot of regulations that are only perceived that way because they need to b

I agree that there is regulation that is needlessly complicated, but there are also a lot of regulations that are only perceived that way because they need to be complex to cover a bunch of important edge cases. I can't count the number of times in law school that someone would raise a point about something being written ridiculously and the professor would walk them through an alternate way of writing it, and by the end, you often saw that what appeared convoluted was actually a fairly elegant solution. I definitely came to law school with a very libertarian perspective and left with a grudging respect that most laws are actually written fairly optimally. Whether they should exist is a different question, but given that they exist, it is generally unlikely that there is a simpler way to write the law. The fact that something is complex doesn't mean it is needlessly complicated. All that said, I think there should be some sort of "cooling off period" where people can't work in a certain private industry for a number of years after working on regulation for that industry.