[Oklahoma]

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” Barry Goldwater, speech accepting nomination for president, Republican national convention, San Francisco, California (July 16, 1964).

What right do you have to tell me when or how to spend my money, or anyone else? Liberty is the ability of individuals to determine their own path to either prosperity or poverty.

And once again we revisit why tariffs across state lines were made unconstitutional. Tariff duties in the individual states were being used as protective tariffs.

[Alberta's Child]

The Founders of this country didn't care about the political principles at stake with states imposing tariffs against each other. The history of this country's trade policies demonstrates that our Founders were protectionists to the core. They outlawed tariffs between states to avoid a very plausible scenario where an individual state could have stronger economic ties to a foreign power like England or France than to a neighboring state ... even to the point where that state would adopt a foreign currency for domestic business transactions. At that point the United States of America would cease to exist. Sound familiar?

Citing that Goldwater quote to support a national "free trade" policy might explain why the guy was a disastrous presidential candidate.

What right do you have to tell me when or how to spend my money, or anyone else? Liberty is the ability of individuals to determine their own path to either prosperity or poverty.

That's exactly the kind of attitude that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and every "sanctuary city" mayor in this country uses to justify themselves as they promote a massive Latin American invasion of the U.S.