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To: craig crawford who wrote (134398)	11/8/2001 9:35:56 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>> One might think you a globalist for opposing it << whatever gave you that idea? >> Or favoring it. Depends, I guess, on whether you are a global-capitalist or a global-socialist << i am neither. "You", in this context, was not meant to indicate craig crawford, but rather as a generic object of "one might think". Nevertheless, the quote that the tax would "also help keep a check on the activities of transnational corporations" implies an anti-globalist reasoning behind the tax, hence a globalist (specifically, a "global-capitalist") could be expected to oppose it. OTOH, the quote "Critics of the tax say it would strengthen the dominance of the United States dollar and require complex and costly multilateral as well as national controls" implies that the tax's proponents have a pro-US, but anti-free trade agenda as it would "strengthen the dominance of the [US] dollar" and create "costly" controls (trade friction). I'm not sure how it would strengthen the dominance of the dollar, but that's what the article said. So, which side are you on and why? Never mind. I've read enough of PB's crap.