[Toddsterpatriot]

2. National treatment: Treating foreigners and locals equally Imported and locally-produced goods should be treated equally — at least after the foreign goods have entered the market. The same should apply to foreign and domestic services, and to foreign and local trademarks, copyrights and patents. This principle of “national treatment” (giving others the same treatment as one’s own nationals) is also found in all the three main WTO agreements (Article 3 of GATT, Article 17 of GATS and Article 3 of TRIPS), although once again the principle is handled slightly differently in each of these.

This means the government can't make it harder for a foreign accounting firm to audit my books than for an American accounting firm. It doesn't mean that all the foreign accountants are suddenly citizens.

Nice try though.

[hedgetrimmer]

You keep trying to throw off the discussion by implying that these agreements grant citizenship of some sort. They don't. You "free traders" don't believe in citizenship, just consumers and the "free movement of natural persons". Citizenship has nothing to do with the rampant illegal immigration in this country, and most foreign nationals who are here illegally or here to strip mine the US economy don't want to become US citizens. It would put them at a disadvantage because they would have to pay the taxes the other illegals are living off of, and they would be required to register for the draft, if they are of age. Nope, they are not interested in citizenship when the money can be had for "free trade".