It's amazing how many business opportunities there are in finding ways to circumvent restrictive regulations. It's almost as if regulations stop people from do

It's amazing how many business opportunities there are in finding ways to circumvent restrictive regulations. It's almost as if regulations stop people from doing what they want to do and usually only serve a narrow few. Yet year after year, politicians campaign vigorously for re-election by talking about how many new regulations they have written. And anyone who stands up and suggests that maybe a bit of deregulation might be a good idea is branded as someone who is inevitably 'a danger to children/way of life/jobs/etc' So we have a situation where people gladly partake of services which innovate around regulations (usually because it relieves the consumer of the cost of those regulations) yet feel the need to keep returning politicians who promise to create more regulations. The only explanation I have is that most voters think the cost-burden of regulations will always fall on another voter, and that the benefits will flow to them.