The things that the U.S. Government did that were predicted to hinder or destroy American business and the American way of life:
Seat belts
Air bags
Auto catalytic converters
Unleaded gas
Banning lead in household paint
Child-proof safety caps
Food labels and standards
Restaurant kitchen cleanliness
Blood bank regulation
Safety switches and guards on machinery
Social Security
Unemployment insurance
Medicare
Giving women the vote
The Civil Rights Act
EPA
OSHA
Mine safety
Motorcycle helmets
Clean water standards
Clean air standards
Regulating cancer causing chemicals
Banning DDT and regulating pesticides
Electrical standards
Railroad track width standards
Air traffic control
Residential and commercial building fire laws
Ship and watercraft safety standards
Child labor laws
Drug safety
Labor laws
Truck driving hours for truckers
Minimum wage
Exposure to Agent Orange
Rent control
Measure & weight standards
The metric system
Product safety standards
Public schools
Fish & Game rules (limits on poaching)
Prescription age limits
Drug laws
Health warnings on cigarettes & booze
Operating a tractor without a driver (California law where a farmworker can’t work alongside a moving tractor without a driver).
Please take note that for every one of those listed above, something had to get really bad to get it regulated or controlled — and now we take most of them for granted.
Greg Kestel is a nine-year IBEW member.