Businesses typically resist government regulation, but in March Florida's interior designers begged the state House of Representatives to continue controlling them, with a theatrically ham-handed lobbying campaign challenging a deregulation bill. Designers righteously insisted that only "licensed professionals" (with a minimum six years of college and experience) could prevent the nausea Floridians would suffer from inappropriate color schemes (affecting the "autonomic nervous system" and salivary glands). Also, poorly designed prison interiors could be turned into weapons by inmates. Furthermore, deregulation would contribute to "88,000 deaths" a year from flammable materials that would suddenly inundate the market in the absence of licensing. Said one designer, addressing House committee members, "You (here in this chamber) don't even have correct seating." (If deregulation is successful, competition will increase, and lower fees are expected.) [St. Petersburg Times, 3-31-2011]
There's a pretty big difference between people who make things safe and people who make things pretty and the last have a pretty weak argument when it comes to safety.
I mean; if it were that unsafe, it wouldn't be for sale.
Overly flammable couches, curtains, etc.
No, that only happens every two weeks when the county pays it's employees. People like to redecorate with molotovs.
