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To: TimF who wrote (9533)4/17/2002 8:57:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
right now Bush isn't even trying

That's a very sad observation. I'd have hoped that a Republican would be less likely to bend over to indulge the short-sighted demands of the labor lobby. I guess politics conquers all.

The odd thing is that labor is the biggest loser in many of these tariff situations. The tariff on Canadian lumber is a punitive tax on the American construction industry and American home buyers. Protecting steelworkers penalizes every downstream industry that uses steel, and those industries employ a lot more people than the steel industry does. We are asking hard-working people to subsidize inefficient industries, hardly something I'd expect from an allegedly conservative government.

Using our economic and military clout to close our borders to goods imported from poor countries is self-defeating in the extreme. It is certainly no way to promote democracy and free markets.
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