10-08-2024, 09:18 PM
My point is, it's impossible to have free trade when one party to the trade, fundamentally and systematically doesn't believe in reciprocal free trade, it's not fair trade. Trade is a two-way street after all. When Ron Paul talks about free trade and tariffs, he is talking about a utopian world where everyone practices free trade, and everyone has freedom like in the USA. He also likes to talk about the moral responsibility to advocate for free access to products and low tariffs/taxes for us here in the USA and we can't control what other countries do. But he almost never talks about the moral responsibility of buying products produced by slave labor in communist China. He thinks that is just fine. He loves cheap products from China no matter if they are produced by child slaves, and the destruction of our industries here at home. He never talks about the morals and consequences of that! You can't hand waive away supporting that reality in the name of "free trade".
Yes, you are a globalist if you think USA must follow free trade principles while the rest of the world doesn't. That is exactly what the WTO is for, to take advantage of our completely open market to the detriment of all our industries and rip us off until there is nothing left, 100% consumerism economy. Again, Trump was the greatest threat to the WTO, he was using tariff strategies as leverage to get other countries to open up their markets and be more free trade at the other side of trade negotiations.
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