In the late 1800s, most Americans accepted laissez faire economics in theory. In practice, however, many supported government involvement when it benefited them.
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The law was a copy of the one proposed by republican president Richard Nixon in 1974
In 2016, California passed 900 new laws. In 2015, there were 930 new laws. About 900 laws will be passed in 2017 as well.
So, if you are counting only 2015, and 2016, there were approximately 1830 new laws in those past two years only in California. Not all of them are good, not all of them made people happy, but it is not the people who decide about this, unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?).
