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So then the problem is we like to live better, which costs more, and we then think we are entitled to that and we then think it's ok to take away fundamental freedoms so we can keep up our preferred lifestyle. And then anyone who is more competitive than us should be somehow thwarted.

You mean the way American products are thwarted from being sold overseas by other nations high import duties?

Exactly what fundamental freedoms are you talking about?

Freedeom From Tariffs? The Constitution says otherwise.

Freedom to take money from me and my business and hand it over to my competitor? That's not in the Constitution.

What fundamental freedom did you lose by Reagans bike tariff?

You mean the way American products are thwarted from being sold overseas by other nations high import duties?

I thought we were talking about free trade. I don't condone protectionism. By anyone.

Exactly what fundamental freedoms are you talking about?

I was talking about the fundamental right of human beings to conduct their own affairs and make their own arrangements. It is no ones legitimate business what I buy from whom and at what price.

Freedeom From Tariffs? The Constitution says otherwise.

You debating yourself? I never made any assertion remotely like that.

Freedom to take money from me and my business and hand it over to my competitor? That's not in the Constitution.

Huh? Bizarre comment. Unrelated to anything I have said.

What fundamental freedom did you lose by Reagans bike tariff?

The one I just mentioned.