I noticed that none of the ‘free traders’ make mention of the erosion of US sovereignty and immigration laws by by building quotas into the ‘free trade’ agreements and letting the WTO enforce the same.
For example, everyone agrees illegal immigration is bad, but jumping from that notion to "NAFTA has immigration quotas" requires a leap of faith in the gods that only the protectionists believe in themselves.
Or corporations don't pay (oops, I was about to type "their fair share of") corpoate income taxes. Why would anyone make that comment unless they believe that the taxes should not be cut, or even believe that they should be raised?