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I don't support FREE TRADE, but I do support FAIR TRADE.
The problem with fair trade is that nobody tells you the whole story when passing legislation. Just enough to support whatever special interest is paying for.
So it becomes a term that is FAIR TO WHO ?
Someone else makes the money and you pay the bill.
I might add that the US has much more protectionist programs for a long time.
Like sugar.... Sugar would have been pretty cheap if not for the import tariff.
And we could be making ethanol from it instead of corn and is much more efficient in it's production.
Instead, we pay higher prices for most food & everything else so we can make it from corn.
Go figure.
Remove the tariff and make ethanol from sugar cane. Will never happen.
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