>If what you care about is something other than economic prosperity, you have to use other tools other than economic analysis. Right, it's a political issue. W

>If what you care about is something other than economic prosperity, you have to use other tools other than economic analysis. Right, it's a political issue. We are not slaves to an economic system; the economic system exists to serve us. >the most cohesive and prosperous societies are those that respect life and liberty and allow people to trade amongst themselves as freely as possible In which direction does the arrow of causality point? >I personally find it ridiculous to argue that making most of Americans poorer and sicker to protect the wages of doctors is socially cohesive. I certainly am not in favor of employing economic protectionism on behalf of high skilled workers exclusively. It should be used on behalf of low skilled workers as well. They are our countrymen; we have a shared destiny, and should put them before others as we would hope they would do for us and our posterity in times of trouble.