[egomeimihi]

A question. Is the problem really free trade, or is it that we engage in supposedly free trade with countries that don't play by the same rules. On the one hand you rail against free trade and call its supporters Marxists, but on the other hand you admit that what we have going on really isn't free trade at all. Would you support complete free trade with nations that had true free market economies, or not?

[Cacophonous]

A question. Is the problem really free trade, or is it that we engage in supposedly free trade with countries that don't play by the same rules. On the one hand you rail against free trade and call its supporters Marxists, but on the other hand you admit that what we have going on really isn't free trade at all. Would you support complete free trade with nations that had true free market economies, or not?

That's closer, and you get points for marking the difference between free trade and free markets.

[FITZ]

On the one hand you rail against free trade and call its supporters Marxists, but on the other hand you admit that what we have going on really isn't free trade at all.

It's not even close to being free. In China when a tool and die shop opens, that government provides the building, the electricity and much of the raw materials needed. There isn't a minimum wage and the workers aren't free to bargain for more money ---they take what they get. In the USA when someone tries to open a tool and die shop, our government makes it as difficult for them to make it as possible, it's got building codes, OSHA inspectors, very large taxes, etc. Plus American labor can't work for dirt because we have extremely high taxes to pay, including property taxes.

[RaceBannon]

I am not sure. If they had similar economies, then, sure, like the free trade we have between Connecticut and Massachusetts, yes, but not free trade between those who impose tariffs on us and use slave labor while we try to do it capitalistically.

[Lazamataz]

Would you support complete free trade with nations that had true free market economies, or not?

Probably.