Agree, this just aligned the US with most other industrialized countries (I'm also not American). Mostly I envy the US for its free markets! But now and then I

Agree, this just aligned the US with most other industrialized countries (I'm also not American). Mostly I envy the US for its free markets! But now and then I get amazed seeing lobbying/monopoly/regulatory-capture being stronger in the US than other places. I think it was Friedman who used to say he was pro-market, not pro-business [a sound principle]. Sometimes US politicians seems to get that wrong.