To forbid our own people to buy in the best markets, is equivalent to forbidding them to sell the products of their own labor in the best markets; for they can buy the products of foreign labor, only by giving the products of their own labor in exchange.
Spooner explains the interconnectedness of buying and selling in the marketplace.
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