>>82295276
I don't give a shit about free trade that exclusively benefits foreigners and multinational corporations.
>>82295319
It's easy to compete against Walmart. You describe a monopoly, so rape them into bankruptcy with antitrust. It's long past due google and facebook were addressed too.
We are paying farmers to keep land fallow, paying farmers for not growing tobacco, subsidizing corn and snoy. If we can pay farmers not to work surely we can afford to throw a few billion towards small scale local artisan cheesemakers every year. If you are worried about the program being too expensive we can easily pay for it just by ending all taxpayer funded aid to Israel. Probably have enough left over to reform prisons. Prison should not be about punishment. Crime has been thought of as a moral issue for too long. How much penitence actually happens in the penitentiary? Crime is a societal problem
Healing is needed, not punishing. Anyone convicted of theft of any amount should be hanged. Rope can be made from US crown hemp. It's not very expensive and it's even reusable.