At some point a politician does have to make a decision on these things. The decision won't look like "should anyone who introduces an additional brand of deod

At some point a politician does have to make a decision on these things. The decision won't look like "should anyone who introduces an additional brand of deodorant be thrown in prison?" but more like "should we give a tax break to this deodorant company here, or to that aerospace company there?" Or "should deodorant imports from China be treated as healthcare products, at a 15% tariff, or cosmetics, which get a 30% tariff?" When making that decision, you need to take into account whether your citizens already have adequate suppliers of deodorant and cruise missiles. You might not like this situation, and have an idealistic answer like "We shouldn't have tax breaks for anyone, there should be a flat corporate tax of X%", but you're not going to get that genie back into the bottle.