[Hoot Gibson]

Still better than being just plain lost, you sidestepped my post and tried to deflect, again. NAFTA, which I have always opposed, does not allow for free trade and it's big brother TPP (pun intended), will be truly onerous. I will give you this, the transitory link between the 80's and today was the free trade agreement signed in Dec of '93. It was additionally, the precursor of globalism which in turn will usher in the one world government. Not the founders, nor Friedman, nor Reagan, nor Trump would think Independence Day has the first thing to do with this thing you call free trade, which is anything but free.

How can something be free when it is tightly regulated? It might be homogenous, but it certainly isn't free.

I never mentioned NAFTA or TPP in my post. It is dishonest of you to attempt to attribute a position to me that I have not taken. The rules do not require me to address every tangent that you spin off to in your long, rambling posts, and my preference is to minimize the time I waste responding to them. High tariffs have never made a nation prosperous and nothing could be further from free trade.