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To: Yogizuna who wrote (12623)11/21/2003 1:13:57 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 17683
 
We are already headed for the "1930s" with the current misguided policies in place anyway.
Such as?

And there are points in my post (made by Dan B too) you seem to be attempting to slip-slide right past:
Now how WOULD Buchanan- -or ANY US President- -stop this sort of thing?

In theory, the federal gov't COULD ban the export of jobs overseas of to other nations. It IS international commerce, which is under federal control and has little Constitutional limits. But the US would have to withdraw from numerous international trade treaties, including NAFTA and WTO.

And nations affected by these moves would also no longer be bound by those treaties and would retaliate.

But it DOES sound like your "cure" for international job loss is to erect a wall of tariffs around Fortress America.

But what do you do when Canada, Mexico, Britain, Germany, China, .... do the same? What does that do to jobs in the US?

While were at it, if protectionism is so good, why not allow states and cities to erect tariffs too? Each village could be its own world. Maybe we could take it down to the level of the individual citizen. Self reliance. Now there's a thought.....
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