Is that like, unrestricted in the since Lenin and Stalin and Mao and Hitler were unrestricted. Should we not restrict ourselves in feeding those types of maws?
This is the entire point of the post...the free market that became the envy of the world, did so precisely because it was based on a fundamental moral foundation. The people were unrestricted because they restricted themselves through their moral conscience.
If you remove that little tid bit from the equation, you do not have the free market anymore.
When you invite the immoral, totalitarian to play on your field, you undercut and corrupt the very most basic nature of the free market and corrupt it.
Our policy in foreign trade, and the constitution provided for it, should be to avoid that happening and trade with those, and open our market up to those, who play on the same playing field we have created...and restrict those who do not until they show signs of doing so. Otherwise, you may have unrestricted free trade...but you do not have the free market that produced the wealth we currently enjoy.
Just my opinion.
The UberRandians imagine that they can polish their wingtips by rolling in the filthy muck with pigs.
Thanks for the ping. I have always been a proponent of fair trade, which should encompass all you have said, but proves difficult to achieve due to the "deal with the devil" so what you end up with is free trade which is only free for a certain few who have no principle in fair trade. Hope I've got it right.