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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Ilaine who wrote (36081)3/22/2004 7:42:50 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 793719
 

Every time the US puts up a tariff, people from countries that are affected by the tariffs simply go berserk. Canadian softwood. Steel. Lambs, for heaven's sake.

Lambs may not be a big deal to us, but they might be to New Zealanders. Certainly US cotton subsidies are a big deal to farmers in Mali or Burkina Faso. They should be. We are effectively demolishing the only industry in which they have a chance at competitive advantage, all to keep a few wealthy Americans sucking on that fat Government teat.

The developed world spends far more in an effort to prevent developing countries from selling the only products they can competitively produce than it does in foreign aid. That's ridiculous, and it needs to stop.
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