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I'm with you on a lot of that, but:

"...the deregulation experiment in the U.S. over the last few decades has shown that lightly-regulated markets function better"

Uh, I'm really not interested in an economics debate, but I think many people would disagree with that blanket assertion. The deregulated electric market in California springs to mind as one counter-example.

Some of the supposedly evil taxi regulations that Uber has been fighting here in DC actually seem pretty reasonable to me. I'm OK with Uber drivers being required to have extra car insurance and the city making sure that the GPS-based meter system is accurate.