No, I don't think I'm overzealous
Well, maybe a little, two centuries is on the low end of "centuries". But it is really closer to three.
The Colonial proto-governments were very interested in influencing the economy. The other players were the Crown and from the East India Company rather than American corporate interests, but that's just because the Crown and EIC had done a pretty good job of keeping American businesses from becoming important players.
We started out on the slippery slope, if that's the metaphor you want to use. My reading of history suggests that the situation is more of an ongoing balancing act.
This particular situation, I somewhat agree with you. I don't like this move. Getting a bit micro-managing. I'm more a "suck their brains out with a straw and sell the widows and orphans" guy, firing them outright would have been cleaner. And if China handles the next bailout directly, the one after that may involve taking them out and shooting them. But really, we aren't talking about Nixon's wage and price freeze here, we are talking about regulating one more item in an already heavily regulated situation where the government is already more involved than anybody likes. This isn't the start of anything.
