Consider the following example. A Chevrolet Impala, let us say, sells for the same price. You, as a consumer, decide that you like the quality of the Toyota better. You decide to buy the Toyota. Force Mary to buy from General Motors.
Government officials bow under the pressure.
They do not force Mary to buy the Impala. In other words, the same government that professes to have such a big concern for the poor with its welfare state, impoverishes the poor through trade restrictions for the sake of wealthy special-interest groups. Consider immigration controls. There are good and honorable people from the Republic of Mexico today sitting in American penitentiaries along the Mexican border. The Mexican wants to work, and an American wants to hire him.