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Congress can start by abolishing the federal income tax and eliminating the junk science environmental regulations and antiquated labor laws from the 1930s.

Bingo. The answer is more freedom, not less. Why conservatives support laws keeping individuals from using their money to purchase a product from foreign firms is beyond me. If we are about freedom, that has to include the freedom to use private funds as the individual sees fit. Why is it wrong for the individual to buy a Japanese car or DVD player, but it's okay for him to buy American? Must he be made a slave to labor interests?

A US company gets subsidized by the feds for a military project. The feds basically pay for the R&D. Then the US company takes this knowledge, and lays off it's US work force, to hire overseas, in a country that the US taxpayers pay to defend with our military. That's fair.

Until we start making the rest of the world cough up their own bills, free trade is a joke.

We should not have to pay $1 to defend Europe, Japan, South Korea. If they can't raise a military, let them pay for ours. If we are going to get out of subsidies, it has to be an even equation.

We also have to insist that Canada and Mexico pay fair market for drugs. If they want cheaper drugs they can pay a drug tax on each item they ship to us, to make up for the fact that we taxpayers in the US are obliged to do so now.