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No one, least of all me, has made the argument here that capitalism should be unregulated or somehow beyond the law. To claim otherwise is a tired straw-man from the far left.Capitalism has no responsibility to provide for everyone. It doesn't. It allows the more powerful to take advantage of the less powerful. Capitalism produces some fantastic wealth and lots of desolation. The only entity capable of preventing complete oppression is government. And it is in the preamble of our Constitution that one of the basic purposes of our government is to promote the general welfare.
Therefore, it is totally the government's business to be regulating capitalism. And the more of it , the better. Europe has been around a lot longer than the USA. They handled the pandemic a lot better than we did. They preserved jobs and businesses. We let people flounder because we did not have a strong enough government to step in and act when needed.
Then we tried to indiscriminately throw money at the problem. That helped, but it also hurt. Now we are wondering if the gain was worth the pain. Too bad we thought we knew better than more socialistic Europe. We have much to learn. Such a young nation.
The question is always how much regulation? And in my opinion your side goes way, way too far.