(01-25-2018, 09:19 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(01-25-2018, 06:53 AM)EricC85 Wrote: No not at any cost but not selectively leveling the playing field.

I'll use an industry I'm very familure with for an example. I sell Tires along with other auto services for a living. I work for an American Tire company that makes roughly 75% of their tires domestically. They sell tires advertised at a higher quality but sometimes 2-3x the cost of foreign cheaper tires offered. It's a multi-billion dollar company they have no problem justifying price for product in direct competition every day, sure we lose some of the lower end market but there's ALWAYS going to be the shopper that just wants the cheapest product possible that's fine, they don't buy my Tires or our services. 

using the state to level the playing field isn't controlling the market, it's manipulating through taxes. Again the problem is real, addressing through selective taxation is the wrong way to do it.

No, barriers to entry permit us to enforce our values (human dignity, fair wages and labor practices, quality products) on those who would participate in our markets. Those cheap prices come at the expense of human rights, permitting them access to the world's most powerful and robust market only exacerbates that problem.