Foreign Trade Agreements

The following was written in November 2013 as a response to the questionnaire for federal candidates seeking an endorsement from the Liberty Caucus of the Republican Conference (i.e., the Republican Party).

Here is the link to the original questionnaire:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwi.rlc.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F05%2FFederal-Candidate-Questionnaire.doc&ei=u3B8UqXbBqPiiwL2ioCoDg&usg=AFQjCNHAzM58Dr-APGVchRKzOkVV0TKRyw&sig2=qStOgZ0RAgXVAbnHi2kFtw

This is my answer to Question #7.

7. A and C

   (I favor both bi-lateral and multi-lateral agreements to reduce barriers to trade; rather than favoring America first in every way possible or supporting and protecting industries which are in trouble)

   With respect to international commerce, I favor both (A) multi-lateral and (C) bilateral agreements and treaties to reduce barriers to trade such as quotas and tariffs.

   I believe that it would not be wise to support (D) America first in every way possible or to (B) support and protect industries which are in trouble because for a country to consider only its own interests and not the interests of other nations, and to favor itself and its industries – and choose itself and its industries as winners in the market – is to flaunt the fundamental rules of free markets, which is fair competition where no one is a dictator and no one is under duress.

    Nations must reduce barriers to trade – such as quotas and tariffs – in order to foster an environment of free and fair trade and friendly competition, without the corruption of government subsidies, favors, bailouts, and protectionism.

   I would support efforts to make both (A) multi-lateral and (C) bilateral agreements and treaties to reduce barriers to trade, in order to promote economic freedom and good economic and social relations with foreign nations.

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Labor Protectionism

Written on June 16th, 2012

Edited in April 2014

   I'm not saying that the value of labor should be manipulated so that it loses its value here... But absent the manipulation of the value of labor so that the effort of workers gains value (I'm alluding to minimum wage laws), the going rate for entry-level labor feels like it should be about 5 or 6 bucks an hour here in America.

   ...What I am saying - however - is that that shit should be allowed to decline naturally; that is, without artificial government manipulation; that is, government controls should be removed so that the value of labor can find its real free-market rate, and our purchasing power and our balance of trade aren't all out of proportion.

   Remember... We don't have a primarily industrial- / manufacturing-based economy anymore. We're more of a service economy now. What's allegedly "backing our money" is more labor / services than it is goods / products.

   Now... I'd imagine that there are a lot of people who want to keep minimum wage laws in place, and who even desire that the minimum wage increase. I'd also imagine that a lot of those same people oppose the outsourcing of American jobs, prefer unionized to non-unionized labor, oppose Right-to-Work laws, and oppose benefit and pay cuts for government employees providing public services.

   So we're living in a primarily service-based economy where the combined government agencies confiscate 40% of the wealth and employ over 2.2 million people, and most of the debate on labor issues revolves around government jobs.

   Most of the people on the left want the government to artificially raise the value of the efforts of workers - including its own workers - who offer services rather than produce goods. They oppose both non-interventionism in the value of labor and government intervention to lower the value of labor.

   So doesn't the left want what could basically be described as a form of mercantilism or protectionism, except one that focuses on services instead of industry? Isn't this just liberals wanting America to protect the value of its economy and its money by keeping artificially inflated the value of its most valuable assets; its workers and their labor? Aren't these people more "capitalist" (specifically, state-monopoly capitalist) than are we free-marketers?

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Military-Industrial Socialism and Wilsonian Capitalism

Written on February 11th and 14th, 2011

Edited in April 2014

Military-Industrial Socialism

   The American military-industrial complex is the biggest assistance to international socialism on the planet.

   We help other countries defend themselves by deploying troops and setting up military bases. This enables them to devote funding towards the expansion of their public sectors and social welfare programs.

   Countries can only have successful large-scale national public welfare programs if they have the right combination of a relatively ethnically and culturally homogenous population, most of which have the same political position and wants and needs from their government; a industrial economy with rapid and / or sustained growth; and / or significant protection assistance from foreign nations.

   Leave countries to defend themselves. It will compel them to be more independent, securely sovereign, self-reliant, and self-sufficient; it will encourage their national pride by encouraging them to emphasize their cultural strong suits in the world market; and it will prevent them from feeling the need to dispatch lobbyists for global governance organizations and institutions to dupe the American public into believing that the economic well-being of the country needs to be tethered to sinking European financial ships in the name of propping up the increasingly globally-integrated international economy.

Wilsonian Capitalism

   You know how Ron Paul says we should have no entangling alliances with other countries, but we should maintain open friendships and trade with them? And you know how Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush wanted to invade other countries in order to "keep the world safe for democracy"?

   I think we should make a list of all the governments which are both oppressing their people and hoarding wealth from them. Then, rather than bomb or sanction them, we should allow and encourage American businessmen to trade directly with the people and businesses which are being oppressed and withheld from by their governments.

   That way, those governments will try to institute protectionism, corporatism, and state socialism to try to keep individuals from maintaining economic liberty and security, causing resentment to grow in the minds of the people.

   That way, entrepreneurial, libertarian, counter-economicist, agorist, and market-anarchist sentiments will grow among the people, and they will desire to secede from their governments economically. Once they eventually succeed, there will be capitalism and minimal governance.

At this point, communal governments will begin to exercise control, giving rise to what could eventually develop into a genuine participatory democracy, which would counter and balance capitalism.

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