The Texas legislature was uninterested in the safety of patients: their goal was to shut down the clinics. I agree that is one case of excess regulation, but not typical.
I would say that applying the same standards of hygiene to both McDonalds and Joe's Diner makes sense. Allowing Joe to poison diners because he only has a small operation does not seem to make sense.
The college where I taught is complaining that they have to provide attendance figures for every student every day to justify the government paying Pell Grants. Thios seems logical to me. It is a nuisance to the instructors, but I always took roll, and then transcribed the figures to the administration, because they requested it and I thought it made sense. Why should the government pay tuition for a student who attends three classes and flunks out? At some point I realized that I was the only one doing this, and the administration was not reporting attendance after all. Now they are actually requiring it, because the Feds are cracking down.
It is devilishly hard to get useful figures from most colleges. For example, what percentage of freshmen entering in 2014 will graduate with a BA by the end of 2019?
What percentage of each major find a job in their field within a year of graduation, and what was the salary?
In all the years I taught, I never heard one college official state the actual full time enrollment. This is a FTE, or full time equivalent, because not all students are full time.
They would generally give reports from recruiters.
I was a college dropout. I dropped out of a program at Barry University because their promise that they had the courses and resources to teach me how to write software, and I dropped out of Miami Dade Community College after I completed three courses in desktop publishing, because they taught me all I needed to know. But I was not getting government funding.
