Reply #34: I never said I was against minimum wage, open borders, or regulations

[redeye]

I only said I was against protectionism.

The micro/macro thing is wrong, because micro refers to the level of a firm or an individual whereas macro refers to the level of an economy. You might have a point about gays and women, but you don't have any point about regions in the United States (a state or even a city fals into the definition and paradigms of macroeconomics) or about blacks, who were sufficiently removed from white society to warrant an ability to consider each group as a separate economy (that was even truer in the days of slavery; arguably, the people in most of Latin America are the United States' slaves, so the situation is sufficiently comparable).

Then, you're right about outsourcing allowing firms to get labor from a nation without investing in it, but I think that the government exists partly to do just that - invest in its nation (or, if it doesn't have enough money, other governments should invest in it). Moreover, given the employment of, say, Indians in American corporations, governments only need to provide the initial setup of a university or local corporation for professional labor to flow there. Finally, the taxpayer argument is as valid as my saying that working people who pay taxes are right to want to gut welfare, or for white taxpayers to want to resegregate the US, or for taxpayers in New York and California to throw the south from the Union (because NY and CA pay more than they receive, whereas all southern states but Texas receive moer than they pay).