Those who say we tried the free market and it failed should research the history of the Boston Tea Party a little. We didn’t even have a free market in the 18th century, a period referred to in British history as The Whig Supremacy. Here’s the background; and to prove that there is nothing new under the sun, it involves company rent-seeking, market distortion, bailouts and stealth taxes.
As early as 1698, the English Parliament awarded the East India Company the…
