Are people better off with free trade than with tariffs?
Free trade provides consumers with better goods at lower prices. Trade restrictions produce the opposite: shoddy goods and higher prices. With free trade, consumers pay lower prices for products and thereby have more money left to spend on other goods, domestic as well as foreign. Free trade also helps the cause of world peace. In the 1920’s and 30’s, trade barriers went up everywhere, directly contributing to the outbreak of World War II. If goods don’t cross borders, armies will. Let’s end all trade restrictions and free the world’s resources to be allocated in the most efficient and productive manner.
