Look at the industries where those regulations are most relevant and notice how most of the jobs in them have moved to countries where those regulations don't e

Look at the industries where those regulations are most relevant and notice how most of the jobs in them have moved to countries where those regulations don't exist. That's not to say we should go back to having children sewing our clothes in sweatshops (oh, we don't have to go back to to it, they still are, just in a different country now), but collectively people have decided that they don't want to pay what it costs to provide those benefits for workers.