Unless it’s bloat in the military or corporate welfare , or big-brothering what people do with their bodies.

Republicans run on the platform of small government, but then what that basically means is deficient spend, line their own pockets, and then let democrats fix the issues, then blame the issues on the democrats. They have demonstrated this twice, and now are the laughing stock of the entire world as the big orange baby is leading the party off a cliff.

Democrats are literally the only option left. They may not be optimal, but at least they actually do stuff that matters.

You are inculcated and yet provide no hard evidence to convince me. Invert your position and consider, empathetically, that I feel just as strongly that Trump is the clear only option for this election cycle. What do you immediately feel when trying on that empathetic lens? Disgust? Anger? Emotion?

Or can you provide an unbiased, data-driven set of metrics from which you would base a decision?

If you don’t want the government to prevent noncompetes, then they’re going to happen. Workers lack the collective bargaining abilities to force employers to do away with them.

That's certainly all true, but there's a good argument that it's really the responsibility of Congress and/or the state legislatures to write laws banning non-competes. Having a federal agency do it is basically an ugly hack.

Of course, the counter-argument is that Congress and the state legislatures are too broken to write these laws as they should, because they don't really work for the people, but rather the corporations (except, surprisingly, in California where non-competes are non-enforceable), and that this ugly hack is therefore necessary and the only workable solution.

But if Congress is too broken to pass a common-sense law like this, what does this tell us about the long-term viability of the US as a single political entity?

> But if Congress is too broken to pass a common-sense law like this, what does this tell us about the long-term viability of the US as a single political entity?

We’re already there, we’ve been there for over a decade at this point. It says nothing good about the future of the US, but nothing’s going to change, so in the immediate moment we need to play the hand we’re dealt.

No Republicans are not doing this for small government, they're doing it because democrats did it

You think basic labor regulations is bloat and big brother? Can't tell if you are trolling or not haha.

That statement doesn't really have a lot of credibility when "States' Rights" is what Republicans turn to only after they fail to legislate something at a federal level.