John Tamny writes:
If you’re reading this post, you’re a major beneficiary of free trade. That’s true even if you disagree. Indeed, a solitary individual could never create a computer by himself, let alone one with the internal capabilities that enable global conversation, along with the ability to buy goods and services produced everywhere. Absent free trade, our existence would be gruesomely primitive, and almost certainly defined by constant hunger.
Have you, the reader, ever crossed town, or crossed state lines, to get a better deal on an appliance, or in search of better food? Of course you have. Thanks to technology and transportation advances, the range of individuals and businesses fighting to serve our needs has expanded in ways that have made all of us better off. In short, if you’ve ever bargain shopped, or turned up your nose to a local restaurant with lousy service, food or both, then you’re an ardent free trader.
The neo-mercantilists are being coy. They should openly declare their fervent belief that "capitalism destroys jobs", along with the corollary belief that, "big government will save us all".
ReplyDeleteNo, they just want a public-private "partnership" to make sure everyone gets treated "fairly". Also, ignorance is bliss and war is peace.
Delete─ Have you, the reader, ever crossed town, or crossed state lines, to get a better deal on an appliance, or in search of better food? ─
ReplyDeleteYes but, you see, John, it's not the same thing! Because when I buy my cigarettes in Pennsylvania instead of New York in order to avoid the tax, I am still buyin' from red-blooded 'Muricans! So I'm not hurting anyone!
Instead, dam immigruntz takum er jebz and the Chinese are rapin' us! Trump said so!
/Trumpista