When people say the US is business friendly, I think they’re really observing that the US is big-business friendly. Convoluted taxes allow big business and the

When people say the US is business friendly, I think they’re really observing that the US is big-business friendly. Convoluted taxes allow big business and the very wealthy to evade them more easily. Convoluted bureaucracy makes it easy to get ahead by working the loopholes, which you can only do if you’re big enough. Same thing for other legal matters. All of this is really a cautionary tale of regulatory capture pushed by vested interests, usually at the expense of working people.