Others are right to note that trade is a form of redistribution. All policy decisions inevitably involve redistribution, whether money or rights or simple degrees of leverage. That's why they're in the political arena.
The real enemy is a lack of assault on the militant free-marketeer ideology backing the corporatist political regime over the last 30 years. When ideas go on long enough without necessary criticism, they eventually become religions, and that's what has happened here. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
