Anyone have any good arguments against the WTO, as I am going to debate whether it is good/bad (I am on the bad side).
Well, it’s a basically a bureaucracy, so you can attack it due to its theft-funding.
But in general it tries to lower trade barriers - that’s good.
The WTO promotes anti free trade measures like quotas and subsidies.
attempting to create free trade by creating another bureaucratic agency is surely backward thinking. establishing free trade is easy - abolish tariffs, quotas, and subsidies.
Exactly. You don’t need treaties and international bureaucratic bodies for free trade.
Exactly! Free trade is what you have when there exists no governmental or inter-governmental or over-governmental trade organistions, trade agreements or trade bureaucrats and so on. It’s funny how many people support the EU because they like free trade, when the EU actually central plans all trade from the curvature bananas must have in order to be allowed to be sold, to how many hours overtime physicians are allowed to work, and occasionally bans import of for example Vietnamese shoes…
Would it be safe to say that the WTO favors well politically connected large corporations at the expense of smaller business and the public in general? A sort of privileged trade for the few that has the Orwellian name of free trade.
“Free trade” is bad for the American worker.
Why?
Because we import cars, clothing, computers, barrels and barrels of oil, and export paper.
If you want real free trade, turn off the printing press. Unilaterally open our borders to all-nations’ exports (actually, make it a constitutional amendment that the government cannot interfere). Drop our taxes until they are the lowest in the world so as to attract foreign capital. The subsequent demand for American labor will drive up American wages.