The Heritage Foundation publishes a yearly Index of Economic Freedom, http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking, that measures exactly that, how free a country’s is, how easy it is to participate, start a business, etc. Our country fell again, we are now 13th. Why? Government interference, higher taxes, more control by the nomenklatura, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenklatura, etc.
If we want to affect the incomes of the middle class, our economy should be more free, not less.
http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/31/americas-economic-freedom-has-rapidly-declined-under-obama/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovs6jAZKXonjHpfsX57ewtXqWwlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMtjNa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm