central_va: You attacked me (unfairly IMO) earlier on the Mark Levin thread, I then see your posts here, and now I understand: you are anti-free trade.
Please be careful attacking us “free traders,” because most of us are “free-and-fair” traders. Free trade isn’t free absent a level playing field, else the entire Ricardian comparative-advantage theory of trade goes out the window. So please keep that in mind. We’re not for tariffs either.
Also, I wish more people would keep in mind that the greatest ongoing experiment in free trade is called the United States of America! Throughout its history, the United States has allowed unrestricted trade among the states, and in my opinion the country has benefited greatly from the specialization that free trade allows. (Just imagine trade wars between the states. What would our national GDP be in that scenario?)