Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; ... The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
– Frederick Douglass [1857]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
December 11, 2019 Free Trade Equals Liberty, Peace, Prosperity, and Harmony
The largest free trade zone in history is the United States. Every day, people are free to carry or ship goods and services from one state to another and one city to another. There are no government officials at the border monitoring or controlling what goods and services cross the borders. There are no customs agents at the borders collecting taxes. States ...
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