Sometimes both of them are wrong. Bad public policy causes people to suffer. Our Founding Fathers understood human nature. They understood that incentives matter and they knew that government can destroy wealth and liberty. There are no increases in a nation's standard of living without increases in productivity.
Excessive regulations stifle productivity by eliminating creativity and innovation.
The consumer pays for excessive regulations. Our Founding Fathers adopted the principle that government should serve the people. We hear that all of the time today, and we tend to take it for granted. But of all the governments in all of the civilizations since the beginning of time, the concept of having government serve the people was a truly original thought. Ordinarily, the people served the government, either the King, the Church, the dictator or whatever.