[Uncle Miltie]

I’ll buy and sell freely.

Who, by name, is so wise and good that they should supplant my judgement with their own on penalty of taxation for the leviathan state?

[DugwayDuke]

“Who, by name, is so wise and good that they should supplant my judgement with their own on penalty of taxation for the leviathan state?”

Why Mister Donald Trump is obviously so much smarter than you are.

[Will88]

Who, by name, is so wise and good that they should supplant my judgement with their own on penalty of taxation for the leviathan state?

So, you prefer the higher income taxes and assorted fees to support the welfare state which grows bigger and more expensive with each new "free trade" deal the US enters?

You're paying for it in the form of taxes, whether you choose to recognize it or not. But, current arrangements do enable you to foist trillions onto future generations.

[expat_panama]

...supplant my judgment with their own on penalty of taxation for the leviathan state?

Well said.  

Problem is we got a mob of crazed fanatics that have renounced the use and authority of reason.   They say their silly "trade deficit" numbers ship jobs overseas and when they see how jobs increase w/ the TD they say all the numbers are meaningless.   They say the TD numbers mean money leaves the U.S. and when you show them that it doesn't they say the gov't stats are all lies --all except the TD.  This is actually a problem we've had for hundreds of years:

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”

― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

[major-pelham]

Washington Lincoln Taft Trump on 1 second of thought.

[lewislynn]

I’ll buy and sell freely.

LOL! That's a sick joke if there ever was one.

[central_va]

So are you saying that the American people have no right to vote for politicians that want to institute protectionist policies?