"Asking more than your market value seems to be a democrat specialty. "
What's the market? The entire world?
The Founding Fathers didn't think so.
The only original taxes allowed (and encouraged) were Tarriffs. Free trade was envisioned to have limits. Sure, maybe you can put reasonable tarriffs on it and it still makes economic sense to get it done offshore but some people on FR seem to see free trade as completely open, no tarriffs allowed.
That's not how the Founding Fathers envisioned it.
So Jefferson going to war against the Barbary pirates never happened?
The market is anywhere that goods and services are bought and sold. The Constitution gives the government permission to impose tarrifs, but it doesn't require them.
I don't particularly want the government in the business of setting prices, even if it would benefit me at the moment.
indeed, the globalists only wish they could open up africa. that would really given them a good source of low cost labor - people working under threat of starvation or at gunpoint.