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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (186103)4/9/2004 10:23:08 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574855
 
Secondly, all countries have trade barriers to protect certain industries.

"True, and they are almost universally a bad idea."

Why do you think they have them? Just to piss you off? <g>

Usually to help well connected special interests.

" Yes but some farmers in the third world can compete, and in any case as I said before - "if somehow they couldn't sell the food without the US trade barriers then the trade barriers are pointless. They either do nothing (so why have them?) or they cut off competition (and so do harm)" "

They do do something.....they protect homegrown industries that provide people jobs.

You said that the foreign farmers can't compete. If they can't then the trade barriers do not protect American farmers. If the only reason they can't compete is that they can't overcome the barriers then the barriers do more harm then good.

If farmers want to compete effectively, they must keep up with cutting edge technology.

1 - That is not true in all cases.

2 - People in poor countries can sometimes stay current with cutting edge technologies.

3 - If your statement was true and there was not getting around it then the trade barriers and subsidies would not be needed because foreign competition would be impossible.
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