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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: HPilot who wrote (111702)8/31/2011 9:44:45 AM
From: grusum7 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 224738
 
Sure we can, its called a tarrif! When the tax makes the oversea product cost the same as over here, then it is no longer profitable to buy from overseas, or worse construct a factory overseas

tariffs only make products more expensive. and when products are more expensive, people buy less of them. when people buy less 'things', there is less economic activity and less jobs.

tariffs are counter-productive to everyone, but they hurt the country that imposes them the most. if they worked, every country would be raising them.

Free trade is a crock made up by industrialists to make a profit overseas.

free trade benefits everyone. it's protectionism that is a crock. some people don't like it when someone else is able to make a certain product cheaper. but the people that buy the product appreciate a lower price. global free trade would give everyone more abundance and lower prices. we shouldn't want to stop anybody from making things or otherwise put them out of business with tariffs.

You can say many good and bad things about Perrot, but he was right about that great sucking sound! Today's economy is the result!

today's economy is the result of high taxes and burdensome regulations and a general fear of what the rickshaw president might do next. it's not the result of global competition.
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