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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Selectric II who wrote (236531)3/12/2002 3:40:11 AM
From: craig crawford  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
>> You determine how to cast your entire democratic franchise based on one tariff? <<

of course not. but most establishment republicans have jumped on the free trade bandwagon because they are beholden to large multinationals (the prime beneficiaries of free trade). this is just one of many reasons i have become disenfranchised with the republican party.

also, my argument is not just based on one tariff. i believe in the need for tariffs in general, not just in this case.

REPUBLICANS STAND WITH KARL MARX BY ADVOCATING FREE TRADE
eurekanet.com

by Pat Buchanan

As for Adam Smith, he was no free-trade-uber-alles libertarian. To maintain British naval supremacy, he believed foreign ships should be kept out of British ports. He favored tariffs as "revenge" on nations that have discriminated against British goods, as levers to pry open foreign markets and as weapon to recapture lost markets. He believed in tariffs on imported manufactures to offset direct taxes on domestic manufactures. From 1778 until his death, he served as commissioner of customs, enforcing Britain's protectionist policy against America's trade. "To expect. . .that freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain is as absurd as to expect that an Oceania or a Utopia should ever be established in it," said Commissioner Smith. Adam Smith believed in "Britain First."
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