I wholeheartedly agree. The scourge that is government festers in society because of a basic lack of understanding of economics. True free trade, not the government buzzword version of free trade, has near limitless potential to bring about prosperity for all. One has to only look at the 2-3 decade trend of world extreme poverty to see the results of (hamstrung) trade. In 1800, something like 97% of the world was in extreme poverty. Today, it is on the way to being defeated. And this is with a bastardized version of capitalism that exists in much of the world; imagine what could happen with true free markets.