In the early 1960s, I opened a small flooring store in New York. There was no need for a license, no tax on inventory or fixtures, no requirement for workman’s compensation and little of any other government interference.
By the time I opened a successful chain of flooring stores in New England, I was fortunate enough to have people who took care of those things. Were I to encounter the roadblocks that retailers of today encounter, I likely would have never entered the retail business.