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"Free Trade" is not free, it is Orwellian Newspeak
reasontraditionandliberty.blog… — We are constantly told that we need "free trade" to be prosperous and developed. That is doubtful, but there is something that is definitely not doubtful. "free trade" is not free. Semantics are important, so let us call things by names that reflect their true natures. "Free Trade" is really Managed International Commerce
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- Cryptocracy, on 08/17/2008, -0/+13freedom is slavery, war is peace, ingorance is strength
- Cryptocracy, on 08/17/2008, -0/+6Ignorance.......
- SaraLiberty, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3I prefer ingorance : - p
- Cryptocracy, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1oh, I get it... "ING"orance
- SaraLiberty, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3I prefer ingorance : - p
- Minarchian, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4"International Managed Commerce"
Works for me! It truly is what is going on, it's the exact opposite of "free" trade. - roosevans, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4"Free trade is a market model in which the trade of goods and services between or within countries flows unhindered by government-imposed restrictions. Such government interventions generally increase costs of goods and services to both consumers and producers. Interventions include taxes and tariffs, non-tariff barriers, such as regulatory legislation and quotas, and even inter-government managed trade agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA (contrary to their formal titles.) Free trade opposes all such interventions. Trade liberalization entails reductions to these trade barriers in an effort for relatively unimpeded transactions." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade
This is what I understand "free trade" to be, on the international or global level. I believe "free trade" must be a "win-win" situation for all the trading partners or it really isn't "good trade"!- caferrell, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3Free trade cannot exist when the governments begin negociating conditions. The conditions will always favor the industries that have best access to the government. Free trade exists when each country decides what policies make sense for themselves and then that government sets up tariffs and conditions unilaterally and independently.
The trade organizations become extra´-governmental organization with the force of law, without representation of the people that manage commerce to the advantage of large corporations that have access to the negotiators.- roosevans, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2OK, Caferrell, now I get your point! For awhile I thought you were just paying with semantics. If two nations have to negotiate about trade agreements, especially with a "third party" then it really isn't "free trade". "Free trade" is unnegotiated trade between nations.
- caferrell, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3Free trade cannot exist when the governments begin negociating conditions. The conditions will always favor the industries that have best access to the government. Free trade exists when each country decides what policies make sense for themselves and then that government sets up tariffs and conditions unilaterally and independently.
- Corrosionx, on 07/18/2008, -0/+5Well, we DO need _free trade_, but not managed trade, which governments and connected corporations call "free trade", and only benefit them.
- bosssmiley, on 07/18/2008, -1/+3Free trade = "There will be NO restrictions on trade between your country and my country."
Anything else is just using the phrase 'free trade' as a smoke screen for protectionism, preferential trade, tariff hikes, rent seeking and/or political advantage. - Pitofdoom, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2You little starving spud farmers better like it or starve to death, we really really don't care which !
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