I was tempted to respond with my own satire:

"As president of Murder, Incorporated, the largest murder for hire organization in the world, I agree that business must be protected from unwarranted government regulation. If someone really wants to live, all they need do is buy a firearm, give up sleep, stay in a safe location, and protect himself."

It would go on in that vein.

The typical burdensome regulation that is invariably considered intolerable to business is something like:

- don't kill your employees, which is right out of the ten commandments which shows that God is anti-business
- compete with the Japanese, which is why Detroit is still making cars despite their 1970s suicide attempts
- keep track of where the money is coming from and going to, which is the outrageous demand of Sarbanes Oxley

No one whines like a business man. No one demands bigger handouts with fewer strings.

The railroads did not have network neutrality until after World War II. It was cheaper to ship raw materials east and north than south or west, and it was cheaper to ship manufactured goods west and south than north and east. When the government told the railroads to stopping peeking into packets, in this case rail cars, the south and west finally started to develop industrially. The interstate highways copied this model. The New York Thruway could have had differential tolls based on cargo and direction, but they didn't, nor did any other interstate highway, and we have more rational industrial distribution nowadays.

Whenever you hear talk about the new south or rising west, remember, that was nasty, evil government regulation of good, honest, benevolent private industry.