{"id":5384,"date":"2024-06-04T09:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2024-06-04T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:54:35","slug":"want-government-to-work-better-then-have-it-do-fewer-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/want-government-to-work-better-then-have-it-do-fewer-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Want government to work better? Then have it do fewer things."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"2851\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/five-reasons-why-you-cant-judge-a-congress-by-counting-laws\/the-hill-newspaper\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"850,315\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Hill Newspaper\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper-300x111.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper.jpg 850w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The-Hill-Newspaper-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, President Joseph Biden announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum, semiconductors, electric vehicles and some other items. His administration<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/05\/14\/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-action-to-protect-american-workers-and-businesses-from-chinas-unfair-trade-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/05\/14\/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-action-to-protect-american-workers-and-businesses-from-chinas-unfair-trade-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argues<\/a>&nbsp;this action is retaliation for \u201cChina\u2019s unfair trade practices\u201d and aims to \u201cprotect American workers and businesses.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cynics allege Biden is trying to appeal to voters considering voting for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\">Donald J. Trump,<\/a>\u00a0who has thundered on and on about China and bad trade deals for years. Whatever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\">President Biden\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>motives, there is no doubt the Chinese government has a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-24-107189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0record of misbehavior<\/a>, including thieving intellectual property, peddling illicit goods, using forced labor and pilfering sensitive technologies&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/finance\/4700719-want-government-to-work-better-then-have-it-do-fewer-things\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, President Joseph Biden announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum, semiconductors, electric vehicles and some other items. His administration&nbsp;argues&nbsp;this action is retaliation for \u201cChina\u2019s unfair trade practices\u201d and aims to \u201cprotect American workers and businesses.\u201d&nbsp; Cynics allege Biden is trying to appeal to voters considering voting for\u00a0Donald J. Trump,\u00a0who has thundered on and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165,160],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","tag-the-hill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}