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To: TBP

Free trade is in moral and illegitimate when the country being used as the workforce has slavery or a near condition, abject poverty and no environmental rules.

Free Traders would not agree that it’s wrong to sell lampshades made in a Nazi death camp as long as the Jews were paid $0.50 a day. Nothing in the free Trader philosophy would prevent that. They sell Us North Korean made products today.


34 posted on 10/16/2017 12:40:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: DesertRhino

So punish the practitioners of slave labor. Don’t abandon what works because of one case. Free trade helps build everyone’s economy.

Slave labor isn’t free trade. You impose sanctions to force the violator back into compliance with the norms of trade.


38 posted on 10/16/2017 12:43:02 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: DesertRhino
Free Traders would not agree that it’s wrong to sell lampshades made in a Nazi death camp as long as the Jews were paid $0.50 a day.

That is a scurrilous lie, and I think you know that.

If that's what your case rests on, you have no case.

41 posted on 10/16/2017 12:45:38 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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