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Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi... by lettergram on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:46PM (#32255813)
Lol the whole point of the US design was to allow the free market internally. Externally it was designed to be protectionist.

I agree “free market” today is insane. Initially the federal governments only source of revenue was tariffs, so it would protect domestic production. This makes the US independent and wealthy.

You can’t have an international “free market” system unless you don’t want to protect domestic production. Which imo is what the US did starting in the 70s until today.

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Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi... by krainboltgreene on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:08PM (#32256129)
> Lol the whole point of the US design was to allow the free market internally

Dear reader, this was not true in any shape.

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Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi... by selimthegrim on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:19PM (#32256318)
Compared to Articles of Confederation?
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Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi... by andrekandre on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @06:38PM (#32257952)
im not sure thats true, but putting that aside, why do you feel it cant scale across national borders?
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