So there is such a thing as proper regulation and improper regulation; I'm glad we agree on that. Assaulting striking workers should be covered as assault, plain and simple, and those responsible should be charged the same as anyone else. We now have building codes that put a minimum (a very good minimum) quality requirement in place, so that fire departments typically spend 80% of their time on medical calls and not fire calls. And of the fires we do have, about 75% aren't structure fires (source: Texas Department of Insurance, in 2011 1038 fire departments responded to 102799 fires, of which 23672 were structure fires). So I'd say that the building codes we have in place are sufficient to prevent abuses in that area. I wouldn't call building codes "fettered capitalism"; builders and homeowners can build whatever kind of house they like, as long as it is safe.
I have a hard time parsing that as anything other than "Regulations I agree with are a normal part of Capitalism; regulations I don't agree with are Socialism, which is totalitarian."
