[s1artibartfast]

I often hear your first point repeated, but have never met a poor person that thought they were going to be a millionaire.

However, I think it is a biased caricature of a real phenomenon.

I think Most Americans don't want the government to put limitations on how successful they can be and put barriers in their way if they start being coming successful.

This is essentially the same idea with different framing

[nerdponx]

Part of the issue is that regulation tends to hurt small businesses more than big ones. So I think resistance to adding new rules is somewhat justified by the experience that adding new rules makes it primarily harder to run small business. Whether this is a matter of naivety in policymaking or anticompetitive regulatory capture is another issue.