tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post6780100789942935320..comments2023-09-01T09:38:54.262-04:00Comments on Dumb Looks Still Free: The Political Lexicon - 2008 EditionA Jacksonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-16768873421573952082007-12-25T09:52:00.000-05:002007-12-25T09:52:00.000-05:00Simon - Merry Christmas!!Free trade - The concept ...Simon - Merry Christmas!!<BR/><BR/>Free trade - The concept to produce Stateless capitalist entities that are not beholden to any Nation. <BR/><BR/>Tariffs - The concept that goods produced in other Nations that do not support liberty and freedom should pay to have access to the free market within a Nation.<BR/><BR/>Protectionist Tariffs - Government intervention in the market to impose its view of what the market cost should be.<BR/><BR/>(ex. Protectionist tariffs and subsidies are Entitlements to moribund business sectors.)<BR/><BR/>(ex. Tariffs to authoritarian regimes are discouraged by free trade so as to support misunderstood foreign cultural institutions.)<BR/><BR/>Trade is held accountable by representative government and is not a stateless (both philosophical and Nation state) good in and of itself: No taxation without representation was on *trade* taxes that were leveraged without representational input from the colonies. The colonies were more than willing to pay taxes on trade so long as there was input on them.<BR/><BR/>Using tariffs and subsidies to protect industries becomes an entitlement, which costs the Nation far more than it protects those industries.<BR/><BR/>But then I have a different view on the function and utility of trade and its support of liberty and freedom. Free trade is for friends and allies that have given the Nation long term support on its goals, support liberty and freedom and abide by treaties with us. Mexico fails in all three categories, as an example, while Japan does not... or Australia, Israel, UK, Poland...<BR/><BR/>And free trade has the benefit of bolstering those people that have cast off authoritarian, totalitarian or despotic rule and should be offered to them immediately upon suppport of democracy and liberty via representative government of the people.<BR/><BR/>That aligns trade with the ideals of the Nation, supports those that support us, puts a price on our trade to the indifferent and closes out our enemies *as* enemies. It is a view way too harsh to free traderites and communists... but it seems that the Nation has a set of outlooks that does support it from the Declaration and the Constitution.<BR/><BR/>Silly, me! I just don't trust economic theory to far beyond liberty and freedom...A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-70044706524548136202007-12-25T09:26:00.000-05:002007-12-25T09:26:00.000-05:00Free trade - the right of any willing buyer to buy...Free trade - the right of any willing buyer to buy from any willing seller.<BR/><BR/>As opposed to protective tariffs. - Government intervention in the market to protect uncompetitive industries or companies. <BR/><BR/>Free trade destroys jobs, protective tariffs screw the consumer. One is by choice the other by government intervention.<BR/><BR/>Useage: Free trade in buggy whips will destroy the American buggy whip industry which is vital to the American economy.M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.com