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No, but why the hell should someone else’s misbehavior cost me time and inconvenience?

The cost of these regulations is millions, perhaps billions of dollars in extra effort, bookkeeping and security by tens of thousands of businesses, not to mention lost productivity and frustration on the part of everyone else evolved, and moats of the costs and inconvenience is borne by people outside the government, who are not committing a crime.

It’s bat shit crazy that bureaucrats are allowed to steal this much productivity from the economy.