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25.
 Why should we prefer forms of protectionism to borderless free trade?


(- 5) Environmental (anarcho-libertarian) view: Protectionism means that government slaps tariffs on imported goods or steers trade through regulation, supposedly to support domestic industries. Tariffs are excise taxes. From a libertarian perspective, all taxes are bad because when importers pay tariffs they transfer wealth from the efficient private sector into wasteful government hands. Consumers who substitute domestic goods for imports whose prices have been raised by tariffs wind up providing a wealth transfer to domestic producers who otherwise would not be able to compete under free trade in a global market. From an anarcho-libertarian perspective, the key here is to understand that dropping all trade barriers can open up the whole world to vast markets. People around the world will then tend to focus upon economic areas that give them the strongest comparative advantage. In theory, by bringing more working hands into the global economy, and by encouraging more global specialization, the free market will show us how and where to make things the cheapest. The overall wealth of the world should increase. From this perspective, ideas about the importance of maintaining the racial and ethnic integrity of white communities are unimportant. It does not matter if America accumulates large trade deficits that foreigners such Chinese and Japanese can use to buy up control of major U.S. industries. We can trust foreigners to think just like libertarian businessmen and give U.S. citizens fair business breaks once they are in the saddle. When America relocates its strategic industries in foreign countries, we can trust the foreigners to never expropriate them either outright or in more subtle ways by unilaterally hiking their tax rates. We can trust that they will not use them to make war against us either. We can expect people around the world to always be rational economic actors, who will always recognize the logic of free trade and of pursuing their own comparative advantage. We can trust them to never act upon alien tribal interests at the expense of maintaining free trade policies. In contrast, if we engage in protectionism, we cannot trust home industries to take the additional income they get from tariff protection and invest it wisely to upgrade their businesses and become more globally competitive. Instead, we expect them to misuse the money as corrupt crony capitalists. Only a globalized free market can show us how to rationally structure home industries, or engage in rational long term automation investment. If the white middle class goes down, no problem, we will simply replace whites with Mexicans and Asians. We can trust that these people will have the same capacity for innovation as whites. We expect them to also have the same sentiment for the Bill of Rights if we allow them to become the majority and take over our institutions. We can trust them to be fair and reasonable towards whites once whites become just another minority.
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(+5) Genetic (libertarian racial nationalist) view: Libertarians may be correct that on a theoretical level all taxes are bad, but it is too utopian to think we will get rid of all taxes and government. Back in the 19th century the U.S. Government relied on tariffs and land sales as the least bad sources of revenue. People around the world are not always particularly fair and reasonable. In fact, they frequently engage in unfair trade practices and deception to gain advantages for their own groups. Protectionism is very much a part of human nature. Even on the street level in America people tend to steer business towards people they like and away from people they dislike. The long term issue actually has more to do with the need for self-sustaining industrial reinvestment at home and preserving shared racial biology than anarcho-libertarian economics. The real reason for the de-nationalization of American trade policy is that American national media and banking have been under the long term control of Jewish supremacists. They think like an alien race and completely lack any loyalty to America's rapidly dwindling white middle class. Jews are instinctively attracted towards creating mixed up, multi-racial, multi-cultural borderless societies designed to one day revolve around Jerusalem everywhere they go. The key to long term economic prosperity is to retain the long term cohesion and integrity of white communities, who historically have been among the most innately productive and innovative peoples on the planet. This is particularly true of Northern European countries. The long term key to increasing the quality of products while dropping the costs of production is to continually invest in smart white people, white middle class communities, and advanced automation infrastructure at home rather than try to find unlimited supplies of ultra low cost coolie labor abroad. Countries such as Japan and Iceland have been able to remain homogeneous and in the economic vanguard at the same time with such policies. This is not hard to do if people put their minds to it and have loyal members of their own group in control of the strategic bases of their society. We can trust racially-conscious and patriotic white business owners to take the additional revenue that they would make from tariff protection and invest it wisely over the long run. We can wean industries off protectionism once they become globally competitive to reduce the potentially corrupting effects of protection. We can trust that the higher wages that go towards supporting the white middle class will continually result in entrepreneurial surprises on the home front. We would expect to see more Henry Ford and Steve Jobs types inventing cool things in their garages. Currently when white communities get replaced by Mexicans and blacks, we see welfare costs rise. We also see a nearly complete lack of Henry Ford and Steve Jobs types. The decline of the white middle class means the death of America as we have known it.


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