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please recognize that every regulation you put in place is an intrusion on your freedom, and every time you empower a regulator, that person is going to be impinging on someone's freedom
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Sorry loquitur, but that is just another extreme generalization with no basis in fact. Unless you define impinging on someone's freedom as taking away the "right" to exploit other workers, pollute the environment, put unsafe food and goods on the market, say whatever you want on the public airwaves......
Everything government does has positive and negative impacts. To make a blanket condemnation of the regulatory role of government simply demonstrates an unwillingness to accept that the positive social and economic impacts have, according to most studies, outweighed the negative, and have, for the most part, not impinged on anyone's Constitutionally-guaranteed rights (as opposed to personal freedom).
Where rights (again distinguished from freedom) have been impinged upon, the blame should be on Congress for not using its oversight and funding powers to correct the injustice.