You prove conclusively that you have no business in this conversation with your first sentence. Sowell, Williams, Von Hayek, Von Mises, Friedman, and many more have addressed this lame and pathetic argument.
“The other side is NOT engaged in free trade; they engage in price fixing, subsidies, dumping, currency manipulation,and trade barriers. That’s NOT free trade.”
They have ALL addressed this argument, as indeed they must, because virtually each and every single nation that has ever existed has engaged in most if not all of these practices, and you do not become a famous CONSERVATIVE economist if you do not recognize and address this plainly unrefutable fact.
NOW! What did the big boys say about these practices? Why is it that even if the chinks do all these things, it is best for everybody involved if we do NOT do these things? You haven’t the slightest clue what they said about these things, do you?
This is part of an Article by Buchanan. He is a conservative and a nationalist. You are a globalist.
“since the Revolution, America has had a standard of living that has been the envy of the world. From the Civil War through the 1920s, as we became the greatest manufacturing power the world had ever seen, our workers enjoyed pay and benefits that were unmatched anywhere.
How did we do it?
We taxed the products of foreign factories and workers and used the revenue to finance the government. We imposed tariffs of up to 40 percent on foreign goods entering our market and used the tariff money to keep taxes low in the United States.
We put our own country and people first.
A new class came to power that looked on tariffs as xenophobic, on economic patriotism as atavistic and on national sovereignty as an antique idea in the new world order it envisioned.
By three decades ago, this globalist ideology had captured both national parties, a product of universities dominated by New Dealers.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2774127/posts
Pat Buchanan
You should read Pat Buchanan’s articles and books.
I’m for free markets inside the U.S. ,keeping the government out of the economy but I don’t see the need to trade with foreign entities especially those intent on our destruction. Nor do I see the need and your theorists’ needs to let foreign labor flow freely over the border nor foreign products.
Are you for illegals invading our country too, after all doesn’t that satisfy your free trade theories of movement of labor? See here globalists we don’t need Mexican labor nor Chinese products.
Will have to go with your two brains over the scholars you mention , who only claimed one. Why don’t you go by your given name, you must be a godsend with your elevated intelligence. I bet we would know you instantly by your real moniker