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To: Thud
"free trade" and "unrestricted immigration" are identical argument.

No, they're not, actually.

Actually, it would be calamitous to have both. You have one or the other.

36 posted on 01/25/2017 9:20:42 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP
Actually, it would be calamitous to have both [free trade and unrestricted borders]. You have one or the other.

The Austrians economists I know advocate for the free, unrestricted flow of goods, services, *and* labor across national borders. That might work out in theory, but not in practice -- as Milton Freidman observed, open borders are incompatible with a welfare state.

108 posted on 01/25/2017 10:15:00 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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