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[Economist's View] I'll grant that taken to extreme, this winds up with us becoming a colonial client under merchantilist philosophy, but as I've noted in the past, over half the country is already a colonial client under a merchantilist philosophy; it's just that the colonial power is a moneyed class within the U.S. rather than one outside of it.
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