It does not take an intellectual titan to discriminate between regulations against selling poison as baby food and regulations that decide what kind of light bulb I should buy. Particularly when the new bulbs I am forced to buy are, ironically, poisonous.

In a healthy society, once you have a set of rules in place that work, there isn't a lot of need for creating new ones unless conditions change enough so the old rules don't function anymore. We have an enormous bureaucratic infrastructure with thousands of government employees with the sole job of creating new regulations, and there's no such thing as "okay, that should do it for now." When the regulatory agencies stop creating new regulations, they lose power and funding.

Here's a thought experiment:

Make a list of those safety and health regulations you constantly toss out as examples. How many of these regulations were in existence twenty years ago? Thirty years? Forty? So what are all the thousands of new rules about?

The article I linked to, which I assume you read, pointed out that most government regulations are designed to benefit special interests, not the public at large.

You have to understand: we passed the point of "reasonable" decades ago in terms of regulatory power, and government power in general. It's time to turn things around, or at least stop making it worse.