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I agree. It is not a free market if any side is manipulating anything from currency value to government support.

If a free market is competing with an unfree market, then it is proper for those who are being injured to take steps to address the problems an unfree market is causing them.

If that is a tariff, then I’m in favor of it.

Seriously, if I’m selling a widget for $3 and getting a profit of $1, but my neighbor gets a government subsidy of a dollar and sells his widget for $2 with a profit of $1, how is that a free market?

Or, what if the government gives them serf-labor that saves them $1 a widget, doesn’t that amount to the same thing?

Duncan Hunter also believes in free markets and said he’ll protect them. I agree with him.

Additionally, he says that we should keep all forms of industry in our country, especially of the heavy variety, as a matter of national security. We shouldn’t be relying on our aircraft or tanks being make all or in part in some foreign land.

The only way our economy will ever recover is by bringing back the outsourced jobs. Corporations should be taxed according to where value-added takes place. If value is added to their goods in China, corporations should pay a high tax. If value is added to their goods in the U.S., corporations should pay a low tax. The congress should move to eliminate ALL unnecessary business regulations and make tort reform a high priority. One can argue about how best to recover our lost jobs, but one cannot argue that outsourcing has added to the GNP of China, India, Mexico, etc. instead of the U.S.