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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Can we agree that free trade, in the aggregate, benefits the country, but that a subset of people suffer?
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Trade restrictions are always special ineterest proposals. They temporarily benefit a small number of people to the dentriment to the short term and long term benefit of the entire society. The argument between restricted trade and free trade is just as moot as the argument between socialism and capitalism. Any argument against free trade is just rehashed arguments used by socialist for economic statism.
