OPINION:
Conservative economists just don’t get it (“Trump’s really bad idea,” Web, March 6). Free trade is only free when normal market dynamics are in effect. Once a nation’s government intervenes with production subsidies or its own excessive import tariffs, there is no longer equitable “free trade.”
If a country has been lulled into low-price stupor because of its acceptance of unfair trade policy, of course there will be an out-of-pocket adjustment as trade policies balance out. There is always pain in the recovery from addiction, but if they see it through persons and countries end up stronger and more self-sufficient in the end.
JOHN SERY
Silver Spring
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