Most folks who claim to advocate for smaller government tend to extol the virtues of the free market, but then often contradict themselves with support for protectionist policies. Protectionism's goal is to avoid a free market where all parties can operate as efficiently and unrestricted as possible, and instead to stack the deck in favor of our domestic businesses. Since our government has no way legal way to directly do harm to foreign businesses and make them less competitive, protectionist laws only serve to harm the American consumer who otherwise enjoys the foreign product at its intended price...