@Phil I think you’ve just found a scapegoat and obsess about it. States would have health, building, fire and other safety codes without the Federal government. State and municipal red tape is where almost all the pain is from a small business perspective, and the contents of that and the character of its enforcement varies tremendously by locality. The Federal government often forestalls state level regulation in the name of harmonization. 1/

@Phil Yes, there are some Federal mandates many states on their own might not adopt. Some states would not pass a law like ADA, if its requirements had not been Federalized. But laws as discretionary (from the majority public’s perspective) as ADA are the exception not the rule. The broad public of every state does not want eating out to be a “caveat emptor” activity. /fin