regulation, Republicans and reality

The Republicans have decided that the reason they are hanging on to billions of dollars and not hiring is regulation. "Government regulation" is a easy villain, amorphous, yet omnipresent. Like 'Liberal" most Americans, decent folks all, automatically think "government bureaucrats" are obsessed with "taking away our freedoms" We need to answer this head on. Most of the underlying laws that establish authority to regulate were, and are, based on real life deaths, poisonings, toxic events etc that were bad enough a law got past. Rule writing can lead to gibberish in trying to cover every possible contingency. Could be improved? Yes. Eliminated, like the latest batch of Republican presidential aspirants want? Cuyahoga on fire, Lake Erie on fire, the whole Upper Mid west on fire because it had ALL been clearcut with the scrap heaped in huge fuel piles. We tried letting business voluntarily deciding to use the commons as a waste heap in the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. We got Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga rivers burning.