[cripplecreek]

And yet none of that has anything to do with the fact that he imposed tariffs on cars, motorcycles, steel, semiconductors and other things.

Fact is that so called “free trade” of today is nothing but international corporate socialism.

[LowCountryJoe]

Reagan was still a politician who had constituients to appease. As for free trade being international corporate socialism? Free trade seems more like capitalism to me -- voluntary exchange of goods/services between two or more parties so that each party walks away from the exchange in better shape than they were before the transaction. Tell me where I am wrong.

But I am more concerned with FReepers here who think that government-managed trade with all the instituted restrictions & barriers and economic liberties lost, isn't socialism. It's worse than socialism! It's central-planning, top-down, command-style economics that does not coincide with economic liberty. Are you one of those people who like government-managed trade where asshat politician select whiners winners and losers?