[InterceptPoint]

Tell you what: let's do free trade all the way. Tell your mother that she never actually PAID all the Social Security that she's getting--toss her off the program instead of burdening me and my children with her.

While you're at it, tell her that she's not going to get health insurance (either from the Gummint OR from her ex-employer) anymore. All medical treatments will be paid in cash, including pharmaceuticals. That way, others will SAVE all that money we currently WASTE on her--so we can buy other stuff!!!

I would be glad to do that.

I (and my mother by the way) would kill the SS program in heartbeat and ditto the health insurance industry. Both are just socialist schemes for getting one person to pay someone else's bills. That is just plain wrong. Charity is voluntary and a good thing. When the government threatens you with jail-time to accomplish the same end that is not freedom and is not a good thing.

I'm still a free trader.

[ninenot]

Now you're catching on.

When you are able to create conditions in the US which parallel those in PRChina, then you will have "Fair" trade.

Since repealing SocSec, the FLSA, OSHA, and EPA (not to mention the entire IRS code) isn't going to happen too soon--the solution is tariffs to level the playing field.