I think so because they probably cost more to collect than they're worth.
NAFTA sucks because it increased environmental and labor regs and also because it didn't reduce the tariffs to zero... it simply made them like 1% meaning that people/firms still have to meet a Treasury dept agent to bring those things in and money it costs the taxpayer to bring those things in.
If anything, NAFTA has just increased environmental and labor regs and shifted criticism away from the real problems which are the export bank, the subsidies, tariffs still not being zero, and global protection of U.S. IP. Other proposed trade agreements raise prices by globally protecting U.S. IP. The WTO is anti-freedom of trade because every time the U.S. govt complains of "dumping", the former simply approves the anti-dumping policies of the latter.
Things like the WTO and NAFTA were proposed by McKinley well before they were enacted and they have done exactly what the protectionists of McKinley's day wanted which was to always have govt interfere with commerce. Basically, Lincoln's protectionism and nationalism evolved into Wilsonian globalism (i.e., managed trade).
If it weren't for Lincoln, then we wouldn't have had globalists like Wilson and his communist disciples like Newt Gingrich.
NAFTA sucks because it increased environmental and labor regs and also because it didn't reduce the tariffs to zero... it simply made them like 1% meaning that people/firms still have to meet a Treasury dept agent to bring those things in and money it costs the taxpayer to bring those things in.
If anything, NAFTA has just increased environmental and labor regs and shifted criticism away from the real problems which are the export bank, the subsidies, tariffs still not being zero, and global protection of U.S. IP. Other proposed trade agreements raise prices by globally protecting U.S. IP. The WTO is anti-freedom of trade because every time the U.S. govt complains of "dumping", the former simply approves the anti-dumping policies of the latter.
Things like the WTO and NAFTA were proposed by McKinley well before they were enacted and they have done exactly what the protectionists of McKinley's day wanted which was to always have govt interfere with commerce. Basically, Lincoln's protectionism and nationalism evolved into Wilsonian globalism (i.e., managed trade).
If it weren't for Lincoln, then we wouldn't have had globalists like Wilson and his communist disciples like Newt Gingrich.
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