Free Trade - When a country is a dictatorship that suppresses labor unions and shoots labor organizers, the goods it exports are stolen property, stolen from the workers coerced to make them. Stolen goods cannot be traded freely. We should not engage in 'free trade' in stolen property. Furthermore, it is only fair that all manufacturers pay the same taxes. We may differ as to what those taxes should be. However, there should not be one tax rate for Ford Motors, and another much higher tax rate for General Motors. When we place a financial burden however labeled on American manufacturers, fairness dictates that foreign imports be subject to the same burden, a tax equivalent to whatever minimum wage and environmental restrictions foreign manufacturers are avoiding.
NAFTA, CAFTA - A 'free trade' agreement that takes hundreds or thousands of pages to spell out has nothing to do with free trade, and everything to do with state socialist managed trade. All those thousands of pages are written with someone's interest in mind: For almost all readers, that someone is not you. It's whoever made the right campaign donations. Phony 'free trade' agreements should be ended.
