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It is not an either/or proposition. We can have trade and we can have independence. Since the founding of the colonies we have had trade with tariffs. It worked fine for hundreds of years. The depression was not caused by not having free trade. The RECORD tariffs on goods did make it worse but it did not cause it. Free trade would not have stopped Hitler from gaining power. Hitler gained power because the Versailles treaty was written to punish Germany for WW1 and to make Germany pay. The only reason we went the free trade route was to contain the spread of Soviet communism. The soviet union is dead. So should free trade be. May it rest in peace.

[jec41]

It is not an either/or proposition. We can have trade and we can have independence. Since the founding of the colonies we have had trade with tariffs. It worked fine for hundreds of years.

Sorry I already been there lived through it and hated it. In case you don't know it a real good pair of shoes cost 50-100 dollars in the fifties because the trade was protected and a pair of ball tennis shoes were crap. You didn't have a selection of anything except what the protectionist provided after making his contribution to congress. The tax rate in the late forties and fifties were as much as 90% on high income. If you really want to be a slave get everything protected. There is no incentive to change anything if its protected. You would still be riding in pintos. There are thousands of products invented at the time and prevented from selling by protectionist.