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    "title": "Free Trade Is The Natural State",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>What requires government action - what requires \"collective choice\" - is protectionism. Free trade exists naturally. Free trade is simply the absence of trade restrictions - the absence of officious interference with those engaged in consensual capitalist acts.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090609172736.aspx\">Dear Baltimore Sun: Perils of Protectionism</a>.</p>\n"
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