Free trade needs to exist on a level financial playing field. What we call free trade today is anything but and the bills/rules typically benefit certain industries/special interests to the detriment of other competitors and the actual free market. The subsidies provided by China (along with the uneven playing field arguments Romney makes) skew the market and allow them to take more business from us than an otherwise free market would grant them. This hurts not only current businesses, but also future business and innovation, as the subsidized Chinese essentially act as a barrier to entry for many innovations and new business formation. Free trade must work both ways and operate under the same set of rules. Too long have those rules been written by the special interests that would benefit most from them.