For the curious, there is some actual data about this kind of thing over here: http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings The

For the curious, there is some actual data about this kind of thing over here: http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings The United States does rank higher than any European economy (which surprised me) in the aggregate ranking, there are categories where it is well behind.