"One of my favorite things of all time is George McGovern, who ran for president in ’72 as a hyperliberal. Of course Nixon kicked his ass. And in 1992 he wrote a column for The Wall Street Journal13McGovern sunk most of his savings into the inn, which eventually went out of business, owing in part, he claimed, to “federal, state, and local rules that were all passed with the objective of helping employees, protecting the environment, raising tax dollars for schools, protecting our customers from fire hazards, etc.” which told the story of his life after he left politics, when he bought an inn in Connecticut. And he said, “Oh my God, I didn’t realize.” And the “Oh my God, I didn’t realize” was: I did not realize what a layered impact 50 or 100 years of regulations and laws applied on small-business owners <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/marc-andreessen-in-conversation.html" rel="nofollow">actually meant</a>."
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