Large corporations with friends in government are behind the plethora of regulations that penalize small business because those are their up-and-coming competitors. I worry that we use the metaphor of a nanny state and the idea gets lost that these aren't do-gooders in government just trying to protect us. They're corporate sharks trying to hurt other businesses. People who welcome the idea of a nanny state might actually start to wake up and protest if they saw the nanny state for what it really was: a bunch of corporate sharks.