it cuts to the moral core of trade in the first place, and whether its additions are mutually beneficial across the board (or state line).

put clearly like you do here, it's obvious that though the coercion is much less overt than in the last centuries, (except in iraq), robber brigandry is still occurring to sustain our way of life.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty