How would we know?
We haven’t had a truly free-market economy since our government voted in 1913 to allow a private cartel of international bankers to take control of our currency.
And we haven’t had any semblance of a free-market economy since our government, colluding with the Federal Reserve, began imposing an increasingly Draconian socialist and welfare (including corporate welfare) state upon us.
This idiot politician with the tennis-ball head needs to study a bit more before flapping his fat mouth. If anyone wondered whether he is a fool, he has removed all doubt.
The year 1913 was a real statist trifecta, what with the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments plus the Federal Reserve Act. If I were a triskaidekaphobe, that’d be the year I’d point to for justification of same.