By the way, you haven't answered my question to cite anywhere that there is free trade. And since we both know that place doesn't exist, how can the global economy work? I know you think you came up with a pithy reply to answer that but, if trade restrictions that exist today are so bad, then, how is it that we have a working global economy?
Let me make this easy. The goal should be trade with no impediments. We have a degree of that in this country. We should have it to a greater degree. Some, like you I suspect, want more impediments. People with that agenda have no place in a capitalistic society.
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I have never said that.
My point is that free traders generally want the rules turned to be advantageous to their point of view or rather, to their business.
I hardly think that "no barriers or rules" for trade would fly in this economy. Corporations would become voracious in their zeal to destroy one another to become the "top dog". And, the result would be anarchy regarding business in the world.
Super-capitalism and socialism both have one flaw: They do not take into account human nature. Whereas leaders in the socialist society become greedy, by human nature, and seek the suppression of the people they claim to serve. Super-capitalism has the same ends: The nature of the human is to conquer, mostly by oppresion. The super-capitalists can only get to be number one by destroying/absorbing/taking-over its competitors. Were there a true super-capitalist economy we could count on the return of the destructive nature of coporations using people as fodder. We need something in between that provides checks and balances to both ends. Free traders alway argue that we need the world economy to be strong so that all benefit. How is that accomplished without the eventual growth of coporations into world powers who take and take and don't care what they leave in their wake?