The problem is lawyers must convince the judge thereis some way to conduct a trial that will account for the different rights consumers in 50 different states have under their own consumer-protection laws.
Now, whether we do it exactly the way European countries do or Canada does isadifferent question, because there are a variety of ways to get to universal health care coverage.
Maybe thereisa better way to compensate people for keeping the beautiful exteriors of classic buildings intact as they are adapted to different uses, but the historic tax credit is one of the ways we do it.