Same with tariffs and other barriers to trade. Opponents of free trade are really advocating government intervention and restrictions or elimination of freedom and free trade in the name of some vague higher goal -- like full employment.
If I want to buy sugar from the Caribbean instead of Louisiana, why should the Federal Government force me to pay a tax on one but not the other? They are taxing me for no other reason than to favor other citizens at my expense. That isn't right.
I find it odd that the so-called peace movement is the stronges opponent of globalization. I can't think of any route to world peace that does not eventually equalize opportunity. We are in an era that sucks; we are suffering from an economic revolution.
I would be ticked off except that life is objectively better for more people than in any other time in history.
Thank you. Yours is a voice of reason that is desperately needed in this forum, which is conservative in everything but economics and free enterprise.