The fatal flaw in all you guy's arguments: The government will conduct trade better than traders will conduct trade. The government will do things that benefit the government, even if it has to screw industry.
If you don't believe that, then you don't believe that all the taxes and alphabet agency requirements imposed on industry by government are at the root of most of our problems today.
The rest of those problems have as a source the unholy alliance of organized labor and political parties.
You bet. And the Government's finger prints are all over our One-Way Trade policies and offshoring incentives.