Free trade and open borders are NOT the same thing. Not at all.
in fact, most who support open borders OPPOSE free trade....altho some support both.
It’s been shown that high tariffs cost many more jobs than they save - and those they save they save by perverting the market. Now open borders costs jobs by perverting the labor market as well. Thus I am against BOTH perversions of the market.
I absolutely agree.
Free Trade does not exist, lake. Self interest does. Those other countries operate on self-interest and we operate on pie-in-the-sky.
There are some semantics here to be cleared up. The freedom to trade our time for a better life is extremely important concept. It's NOT BS. When I hire someone to do a job for a price, or I do a job for a price, it's a free exchange, a free will trade.
I understand there are some poorly run governmental forced trades, currency manipulation, and just plain bad management, but dumping the baby out with the bath water is not a good thing.
My business is in the wild world of construction, it is overly regulated, but it's plenty free, a great example of free trade. People freely pay me to do a job. I trade my time for their hard earned money and have to earn their approval by doing a good job.