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Eliminate free trade and we turn into North Korea. Some people want to take their ball and go home when they are losing. I think Americans are better than that. I say COMPETE. In some areas we will lose and in some we will win. Overall, we will win. How can America be called a nation of liberty if it would prevent free men from selling to other nations and vice versa.

I'm guessing you don't realize that the entire Federal government was originally funded by ... tariffs. We are under no obligation to provide a market for goods produced outside our nation that throw our own citizens into poverty, it's self-defeating. "Free men" respect and protect the source of their freedom, not compare it to a failed totalitarian state.

The Founding Fathers as just a bunch of Kim Jong Il forerunners ... really. Listen to yourself, you've gone completely 'round the bend.

Actually I know that it was funded entirely by tariffs. These tariffs were not large. I would think that the governmental barriers to trade are higher now than they were back then.

I'm guessing you don't realize that the entire Federal government was originally funded by ... tariffs.

Alcohol and tobacco taxes also funded the Federale Gov't back then. This is why we have the BATF in the Treasury Department. To make sure those taxes are collected. Of course no income tax back then so those three taxes/tariffs are how the DC Gov't stayed afloat