You're right.
We need the government to manage trade.
Of course to do that we'll need the government to set prices. And for that to work we'll need the government to set quotas.
And for all of those to work we'll need to abandon freedom to trade, true and mutual cooperation, which is the fulcrum of property rights on which mankind is lifted from the barbarism of nature into civilization.
Perhaps our government will package these diktats in convenient 5 year plans.
We can call them the New Economic Plan. I sure it will usher in an age of wealth and wonder...
Why is it on Free Republic people decry actual freedom and want government dictating who can trade with whom and on what terms. As though the beknighted hand of the bureaucracy had someone fostered all the wealth these posters utilize to share their views...
Government already runs Free Trade. Look at all the laws we have to pass to enforce “Free” trade
Who do you think runs the EU? The Trade Fairy?
There is no freedom in having trillions of dollars of deficits with COMMUNIST China