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Suggest you reread my post 50.
Trade is not “free” if it is not “fair”.
Only the United States is practicing “free” trade, to its detriment.
Its competitors restrict and prohibit reciprocal trade.
When all the other trading nations live up to the same rules as the US, or the US rescinds its own rules, will there be free and fair trade. Tell me if you think the US should allow child labor, stop all worker wage and benefits improvements, waive all environmental laws, stop all taxation, permit unconstrained pollution, arbitrarily set the exchange rate of its currency, and stop defending the rest of the free world, because that is what it will take to compete with China.
For too many Republicans, libertarians, and sadly, Freepers, “Free” trade is a mantra that they really don’t understand.
I don’t care what you call it. The idea that a centrally controlled economy will outperform a free economy is just silly. These arguments always come to nothing, because the totalitarians, well, they collapse. The danger to our country does not come from outside our borders, it is of our own making. And China, they will collapse from their own weight.