Not true in the slightest. The US Customs Service was created four months after the constitution was ratified, therefore regulating what goods can be imported and making imported goods more expensive than domestic goods. The US has had a highly regulated economy since inception.
>Free markets brought the world out of poverty. Perhaps you thought medieval children did not work?
You just stated your opinion again? The free market doesn't actually exist and governmental organizations brought people out of poverty.
>In the US that all happened before government spending on that. The US poverty rate is the same it was in 1968, the inception of the Great Society programs. It had been steadily declining before then
Oh lordy, there is so much that you don't understand. Medicare and Social Security alone keep millions of seniors from dying homeless on the street every year.
>Communist countries. More to the point, every organization that has tried collective farms has failed to feed itself.
I understand WHY the number was made up. I'm asking for a citation for that number because it sounds like nonsense.