The answer is in the article. Kill the small businessman. Subordinate the individual to the collectives -- the state bureaus and the corporate giants.
Why???????
Economic protectionism. More evil than it is stupid.
Suppose you are a greedy carrot farmer in Belgium and you happen to know that most of the carrots grown in England are a different shape than the variety you grow. All you need to do is beg or bribe the Eurocrats to pass a regulation giving your carrots preference.
NAFTA is the same way. You don't need a document the twice the size of the NFL rulebook to say "free trade". But you do need a lot of ink to give protected markets to all the vested interests. All this does is establish a huge, entrenched bureaucracy that can never be abolished.