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Like "free trade" agreements that cost the US taxpayer billions and billions of dollars to build infrastructure in third world countries which they call "trade capacity building"?

Yes, exactly like that.

Are you even reading a word I write? I want the government to interfere less in our economy and everybody else's. I've said it in almost every post I've made on this thread. Buchananites want the government to interfere more. Differently, but more.

Allow the free citizens of America to engage freely in the exchange of legal goods and services with the citizens of other nations. That's it. That's what the government should be doing. Not funding infrastructure improvements in third world crapholes. Not erecting tariffs to insulate inefficient domestic producers from global competition.

Allow Americans to trade freely in legal goods with the citizens of other nations.

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you cannot do that so long as you have currency imbalances, currencies that don't float, import restrictions in other countries, and lower living and wage standards that americans simply will not accept for themselves.

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Allow Americans to trade freely in legal goods with the citizens of other nations.

What about medicines as it will reduce profits for the pharma corporations?