Yes my comment was a bit of a knee jerk reaction to seeing a statement, but take a pause and consider what caused it.

It shouldn’t be surprising that a call for shrinking government after the doge fiasco raises counter examples, especially in response to an article on doge.

And since your statement was so broad and generalized, it doesn’t really lend itself to constructive debate.

But yes this site strives for more quality discussion.

It seems we both agree though, but have different views on where to set the scale.

We agree on the fundamental yeah? Can we agree that while regulation and enforcement, aka big government, is annoying and costly, yet at the same time a good number of regulations are or were necessary due to being written in literal blood.

We agree on that right? That neither of us want melamine poisoning the milk small kids drink nor do we want our kitchen counter tops to be priced in terms of lung chunks of workers. But also acknowledge that regulations hurt small businesses and need balance.