All good regulations have one thing in common: Somebody died.

A good example of that was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire which was a sweatshop in New York City in 1911 that caught on fire and caused the deaths of over 129 immigrant women and 17 men ages 14-48.

While many died from smoke inhalation, others jumped to their deaths from out of a ninth story window to escape the fire after the fire escape collapsed.

There were no fire alarms, the doors were chained shut to keep the employees from sneaking out, and the cowardly foreman who had the only key to the stairwell ran away leaving employees to burn.

The owners never spent a day in jail and they collected $60,000 in insurance money. Two years later, one of the owners was fined $20 for locking the doors to his sweatshop again.

That tragedy is now why we have so many fire regulations.

But all bad regulations have this in common: They exist solely to let big businesses crush the little guy, to rollback the regulations that protect us, and make all the lives that have been lost lived in vain.

There you go.