Critical Reasoning

The excessive number of safety regulation that the federal government has placed on industry poses more serious hardships for big businesses than for small ones. Since large companies do everything on a more massive scale, they must alter more complex operations and spend much more money to meet governmental requirements.
¡¡¡¡Which of the following if true, would most weaken the argument above?

¡¡¡¡A. Small companies are less likely than large companies to have the capital reserves for improvements.

¡¡¡¡B. The operation codes are uniform, established without reference to size of company.

¡¡¡¡C. Safety regulation codes are uniform, established without reference to size of company.

¡¡¡¡D. Large companies typically have more of their profits invested in other businesses than do small companies.

¡¡¡¡E. Large companies are in general more likely than small companies to diversify the markets and products.

IMO A.

Q says that its harder for large companies to abide by regulations..

Stmt 1 says that smaller companies have comparatively lesser money so it is harder for them

Thanks
The OA is A

I like explanation for A