[germandiago]

In my mind chopping off is just stealing. It also kills incentives to invest and improve, which has negative effects in prices, employment...

Deregulation is what allows people to enter markets. Regulation is what puts barriers.

There are plenty of times where regulations are just plain absurd and what they contribute to is to kick out smaller players from the market without any real improvement. It also forces consumers to buy more expensive because the market is more monopolized. Safety is the typical excuse. Sometimes it could make some sense but sometimes is just plain cheating.

I would let people choose carefully and have ALL the information clear (must be really dilligent about this in laws) about what they are buying or not, contracting or not and let the market decide what those levels of quality for each service are and the value they have.