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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (242240)3/27/2002 5:56:15 AM
From: craig crawford  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
>> In the end, either you rely on the market to set prices, or you politicize the economy, and render it less efficient. There may be limited situations justifying protectionism, but the default position is against it....... <<

so are you implying that our economy was less efficient during the more than a century that we used tariffs as a chief source of revenues to the federal government? if so, why do you think our forefathers would pursue such an inefficient course? were they all just too ignorant to understand the invisible hand benefits of free trade?
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