Government should be allowed to pick winners and losers rather than hundreds of millions of free people freely making billions of transactions in their own best interest? Did you go to the Collectivist School of Economics? When did you become such a staunch believer in the benevolence of big government? I'll bet you'd love to vote for someone who will make the trains run on time.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman
I guess every founding father was an enemy of freedom because the first laws that were passed were tariff acts.
This is true domestically but trade between nations is political as well as economic, all the stamping of feet an gnashing of teeth will never change that.
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman “
Friedman also said that trade deals like NAFTA and TPP which bypass the needed Senate 60 votes are NOT FREE TRADE, they are government managed trade. I’ll never forget on Cspan watching him try to make Dick Armey (Freedom works sell out!) understand that. Armey didn’t care because he was making big bucks pushing it, which is why any of them support TPP, including TED CRUZ...he not only voted for TPa, but praised it in the WSJ.
Milton Friedman: I would hope so. NAFTA is misnamed, it’s not a Free Trade Agreement, it’s a Managed Trade Agreement.
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/fri0int-5
Well yes, if you're talking about American businesses and interests versus the interests of China or Vietnam. If you're fine with the United States losing to corrupt, communist countries and thus losing all of our labor and manufacturing, then you're a fool. This "Free Trade" stuff is Utopian and detached from reality. Free Trade works within the 50 states. It does not work with other countries.