{"id":4520,"date":"2021-02-23T12:46:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:46:23","slug":"bidens-pick-to-run-the-commerce-department-is-no-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4520","title":{"rendered":"Biden’s Pick To Run the Commerce Department Is No Progressive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross<\/a>, one of the few members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to serve the full four years, memorably made a fool of himself<\/a> by promising that tariffs on steel and aluminum imports would hardly be noticed by most businesses and consumers. It was an argument that undermined itself\u2014the tariffs were intended to force businesses to make different purchasing decisions and thus would have to be noticed<\/a> in order to work. Worse, Ross approved the vapid “national security” rationale for imposing those tariffs, then oversaw the development and operation of an opaque, confusing<\/a>, and easily corrupted process<\/a> to determine which American businesses could dodge those tariff costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross also led Trump’s unsuccessful effort<\/a> to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census, which would shift the once-per-decade redrawing of congressional districts and politically disenfranchise<\/a> parts of the country with high immigrant populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the Commerce Department for four years has been a tool for expanding bureaucratic control of the economy under the false premise that federal officials know how to run businesses better than the people who actually do\u2014and for politicizing<\/a> the normally rote functions of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that was before Democrats took charge. Thankfully, Raimondo seems like an unlikely candidate to double down on the past four years of economic foolishness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biden’s Pick To Run the Commerce Department Is No Progressive<\/a><\/blockquote>