Comment by tvanantwerp

The trick here is defining "smart" versus "needless" regulations. It's not always an obvious difference. For example: lots of excessive state-level occupational licensing which effectively just creates cartels was passed with sensible arguments about protecting consumers from harm and poor quality. It's fairly easy to rationalize lots of regulations that don't work very well in practice. So just saying "it should be smart and not mindless" isn't really a solution to anything without a rigorous definition of what a "smart" regulation looks like.