The more laws and rules government creates, the less people rely on their own critical thinking skills. People become reliant on the government to determine their personal safety, and allow government laws and rules to determine daily personal safety behavior.
Case in point: the very specific child car seat laws. Wisconsin state government told parents you must have safety seats and must follow very detailed requirements at the time your children grow to specific age, weight, and heights, only to learn a couple weeks ago that some of the safety seats that comply with the government requirements are not safe.
Restricting cell phone use, pulling drivers over for not wearing seat belts, extra testing of senior drivers and the list will go on and on. The legislature is back in session and
some lawmakers think it is time to create more laws to add to the Wisconsin law books that are now five volumes, each two inches thick, with 5,791 pages of fine print. There are 18 volumes of administrative rules to support the 5,791 pages of fine print. The administrative rules are another 12-13,000 pages of fine print.
Must we have more fine print? More fine print should be devoted to criminal behavior, reducing government spending, and lowering taxes. Here is
my column about unnecessary cell phone legislation from July 2006. 
