Let me give you an example of this intrusiveness. Last spring I went to a nursery to buy some spray for fruit trees. I generally buy a gallon at a time because that is about what I use in a summer. I like to have fresh spray every year. The clerk said that she could not sell me a gallon, but she could sell me four quarts. I said that I preferred a gallon because you only had to stir it up once and besides the spray costs more by the quart. She said that she would give me the four quarts for the gallon price. I said, " Why don't you just sell me a gallon?" She said, "I can't legally, because EPA has not yet approved the label for the gallon container.!"
This is only a very small sample. I also live on a 90 farm. I have to inform the local fire department when I have a "controlled burn". A controlled burn is an outside fire such as burning a brush pile. I also have to estimate the duration of the fire.
Collectively, this nation is choking in regulations of various types.IMHO
I know just what you mean. My husband has to have a license to buy chemicals. You have to have a permit to transport waste oil as a hazardous Waste. We have to have a permit to keep gasoline and diesel in bulk on the farm. We have to post fields when we spray them, in English and in Spanish and have to post labor laws informing people of their rights also in English and Spanish. I could go on all night.