OH, COME ON!

This is not free trade.

After a very stupid decision to slap tariffs on imported steel, the Bush administration is actually promoting free trade with the Central America Free Trade Agreement. John Kerry, unions, environmentalists, and Pat Buchanan paleoconservatives will not be pleased.

It's politically managed trade. It's promoting more statism, not more freedom. Property owners do not need a massive government treaty and bureaucracy in order to facilitate mutually advantageous exchanges.