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Debate:Does "free trade" increase wealth rather than simply redistribute it? (view source)
Revision as of 00:16, February 25, 2012
, 00:16, February 25, 2012→No
its all about re-distributing the american pie.
its all about re-distributing the american pie.
--[[User:Wally|Wally]] 14:04, 28 June 2007 (EDT)
--[[User:Wally|Wally]] 14:04, 28 June 2007 (EDT)
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That's the problem. Pat Buchanan is a populist. Not a conservative. It boggles my mind that freedom loving conservatives could ever support a policy that seeks to dictate to whom we can freely trade? Of course true free trade increases wealth. I have yet to understand how the restriction of trade can benefit anyone other than the favored industry in question. Protectionism benefits the industry in favor of the protection and those close to it at the expense of consumers and other industries that rely on the inputs of the favored industry. The economic argument aside, it is pure statism for the government to decide it will force consumers to pay tariffs for a industry they no interest in protecting.