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Comment on: Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month
Even if it's better than Argentina's, it's still not good: https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/grasping-at-paper-strawsContracting policy/regulation is an area that accumulates the worst tendencies of government rulemaking:1. Corruption results in hyper-specific rules being advanced.2. It's very difficult to un-do regulation without replacing it, so those rules stay in place even after the party who wanted them isn't competing in a sector.3. Executive initiatives that have public interest but aren't considered worth the squeeze of turning into Congressional policy often turn into "do something, any