What a strange article. Clearly he's writing from the perspective of "small technology firms", so why extrapolate his perception of how regulation affects his industry with all industries?

Please, Matt, speak to someone trying to run a business in the "more conventional trades" and see how government regulations hurt them.

That is if you can find any such small businesses in the areas that federal government regulation have killed off. Just take banks for example: in the last 4 years, the federal government has basically made it impossible for any bank with less than $100,000,000 in deposits to exist. New regulations essentially require 40+ hours per week to keep up with the "minor nuisance paperwork." That's simply not doable if you're a small bank, which is why you're seeing all of them gobbled up or closing down.

Obviously, this has dramatic affects on the ancillary small businesses that made their living serving those small banks.

Just because the harm isn't visible to you doesn't mean it doesn't exist.