“Free Trade is the market economy without government interference.”
Without any Government enforcing rule of law, Intellectual property will be stolen immediately, fraud will be rampant, contracts violated, and competitors like communist China will subsidize their manufacturers to undersell ours and drive ours out of business - as a form of warfare, to destroy our industrial base needed to fight an actual war.
Free trade in my view, is a level playing field, where people can compete based on fair rules, which are enforced by the Government.
Intellectual property will be stolen immediately
How?
fraud will be rampant
How? Government is the main perpetrator of fraud in the U.S.
competitors like communist China will subsidize their manufacturers to undersell ours and drive ours out of business
How? Government is the main perpetrator in dulling U.S. competitive edge. Does taxing our own American consumers in the form of tariffs give us a competitive edge?
Again, you again want to mix up free trade with fair trade. Again, free trade is the market economy WITHOUT government interference. "Fair trade" is government-forced "level playing field" which is illusory.
"A society that puts [government-forced] "equality" ahead of freedom will have neither equality nor freedom. But a society that puts freedom ahead of equality will have a great deal of both." - Milton Friedman.