Only Free Trade – LewRockwell
Posted by M. C. on January 18, 2017
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/01/walter-e-williams/free-trade-3/
One of the unappreciated benefits of international trade is that it helps reveal the cost of domestic policy. For example, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration can impose high costs on American companies, but it has no jurisdiction elsewhere. Our Environmental Protection Agency can impose costly regulations on American companies, but it has no power to impose costly regulations on companies in other countries. Congress can impose costly tax burdens on American companies, but it has no power to do so abroad. Restrictions on international trade conceal these costs.
All government interference with free trade costs us jobs and money.


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