How to persuade liberal, regulation-crazed California to ease up? Market your libertarian pet project as the ultimate in political correctitude. Also, find some Democrats to sponsor the legislation you need to ditch those irksome regulations and get your project off the ground.

Case in point: AB-626, a bill introduced in the California legislature in February that would allow people to sell hot, home-prepared food directly to customers out of their own kitchens. Right now a tangle of complex California food-safety regulations require such home-based small businesses to undergo training and inspections and maintain elaborate restaurant-style kitchens (or rent them) that are out of the economic reach of most people of limited means who’d like to earn extra dollars selling homemade lasagna or pork-sandwiches around their own neighborhoods. De-regulating the food-selling industry so as to let these kinds of businesses flourish is a favorite libertarian cause.