[Alpha Kodiak]

It can be argued that the U.S. has moved away from capitalism toward socialism in a number of areas. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing makes for a significant debate. I do know that in a number of industries (such as healthcare billing, where I am working right now) small companies are struggling to deal with tons of government red tape (strangely in the guise of "Administrative Simplification") that threaten to choke them out.

While government regulation can be a good thing as it protects consumers from large corporations whose only goal is to make money at anyone's expense, it can also choke out small companies that would otherwise provide competition to the larger companies that can afford to deal with the red tape. There is a fine line between too much and too little regulation, and it is a line that we struggle with, missing on both sides of the line from time to time.