Over 1 million federal "rules"? Using text analysis by looking for words like "shall" and "shall not", the Mercatus Center of George Mason University found over a million federal restrictions. Key Question: How is business supposed to operate with a rulebook which is over a million rules long? Answer: Inefficiently, so that prices rise--harming the poorest consumers first and most. https://www.mercatus.org/publications/regulation/regulatory-accumulation-and-its-costs