Requirements for the government-free market

[CitizenCain]

But you don't need to let down your pants, don't you? I do think it's a good idea to trade with China, but currently it wouldn't be good to open up the markets completely.

Which is why libertarians disagree on questions like this. On the one hand, you have a market player that's essentially cheating and leveraging an unfair advantage... but if our government were to restrict trade on that basis, it's an infringement of individual liberties, in that it prevents people from getting "the best deal" on products produced by child labor in Chinese sweatshops. Not that I necessarily want any such products, but everyone bitches when the price of their ghetto-wear/white trash fashions goes up $0.47 per shirt.

<shrug>

You forgot that another important "role" of government has been funding expensive R & D, in the things a private-for-profit "free market" can't or won't.

*Citation needed/completely unfounded bullshit.