[sixmil]

If isolation is such a good idea, then it would be a good idea to practice between the states. Put tarrifs on goods made in Californa and shipped to Michigan. Obviously that's a dumb idea, and it's the same dumb idea when applied across national boundaries.

*sigh* No one is arguing for isolation. How about an honest debate, instead of the democrat paint-you-into-an-imaginary-corner tactics? The reason we have free trade between states is that we have a common government and we all play by the same set of rules. To achieve that with international trade requires either submission of sovereignty to the WTO or real trade wars (i.e. armed invasion). Which do you prefer?

[A. Pole]

If isolation is such a good idea, then it would be a good idea to practice between the states. Put tarrifs on goods made in Californa and shipped to Michigan. Obviously that's a dumb idea, and it's the same dumb idea when applied across national boundaries.

Very revealing comment. For free traders there is NO DIFFERENCE between California, Michigan on one side and Guangdong, Karnataka on the other.

Americans in the eyes of free traders have no claim or stake in American economy unless they are the part of international owner class. American workers are to be treated as a commodity to be priced on the level equal to the Third World labor.