John Stossel: “There are now 170,000 pages of federal laws and many more local rules. If you can’t get a job, there’s a good chance that this spider web of regulations is the reason why. After recessions, employment used to bounce back quickly, but not this time. What employer wants to hire when doing so requires fighting incomprehensible complexity and risking punishment for violating some obscure rule? I’d be afraid to build a serious business. Today’s laws are so complex even the lawyers don’t understand them. And the clutter gets worse. Every day, regulators craft more rules. It’s always more. If you’re a regulator, and you don’t add rules, you think you’re not doing your job. … To clean house, pass the Stossel Rule. It’s simple: For every new regulation bureaucrats pass, they must repeal five old ones. It would be a start.