Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Hey, politician. Yeah, you. Want to give Americans a modest tax cut, raise the standard of living for middle-class and lower-income families, reduce federal bureaucracy, and make U.S. companies more competitive in the global marketplace? Easy — all you have to do is enact the single most unpopular idea in American politics: unilateral free trade. … Free trade would be better for everybody. But why would we want to adopt the stupid and frequently corrupt trade policies of badly governed countries just because some of our people do business with some of their people?” (06/19/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/an-economic-policy-thats-just-a-little-bit-radical/