[dogbyte12]

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.

[staytrue]

We should not have to pay $1 to defend Europe, Japan, South Korea.

True statement in principle, but false in reality.

Japan's economy is about half ours. If Japan ever developed a military half ours, it would have some very bad consequences. Do you really want Japan to have 3 carrier battle groups, and 5 nuclear armed Trident submarines roaming around ? Do you want Germany and France doing the same ?