[PugetSoundSoldier]

Can you have sex and remain celibate? That's what you're claiming here.

You need to educate yourself about what is free trade:

Definition one: Free trade is a type of trade policy that allows traders to act and transact without interference from government.
Definition two: Trade between nations without protective customs tariffs.
Definition three: Trade between nations without protective customs tariffs.
Definition four: Free trade occurs when goods and services can be bought and sold between countries or sub-national regions without tariffs, quotas or other restrictions being applied.
Definition five: International business not restrained by government interference or regulation, such as duties.
Definition six: trade based on the unrestricted international exchange of goods with tariffs used only as a source of revenue.

Now, what do ALL those have in common? Hmmm... That's right - NO TARIFFS OR DUTIES!

So, how can you be a free trade advocate yet use tariffs?

Unless, of course, in your own warped little mind there is some alternate definition of free trade where you can't use tariffs unless you can, thus allowing black to be white, up to be down, and your newspeak pervade the world.

So come on, Mojave, explain how you can support the use of tariffs and support free trade. Seems the world at large pretty much agrees you can't, at least by the definitions used by the world at large. Shake yourself out of your illusions and try giving a straight answer!

I know, hope springs eternal... I hope you will actually give a straight-forward answer one of these days!

[Mojave]

1. Trade between nations without protective customs tariffs.

2. That's right - NO TARIFFS OR DUTIES!

So all tariffs are "protective."

NewSpeak. The language of Reagan haters everywhere.