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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (236369)	3/11/2002 8:41:25 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: "...there is no debate about hamilton's stance on the protective tariff. he was the chief architect of our tariff policy." Ok...I thought as much and didn't remember. It's of no matter here, indeed. Re: "to suggest that using tariffs as an economic tool means we would be isolated from the world is disingenuous." Not my intended suggestion at all. The point of the "island" theme was to point out an extreme involving the lack of any outside cooperation, and thus point to the natural need(we can't make a pencil without help! NO can do) FOR cooperation in the form of allowing foreign markets to thrive without the burden of tariffs imposed upon goods entering this already great and abundant country. Thought you might like the above perspective, in the end. Think about it as, Freedom Works P.S.---as for your final diatribe, I have to point out again that pencil again...it seems you'd be surprised indeed to realize all the countries necessary to produce everything you mention, today...and yesterday....and tomorrow. Peace, love, and don't forget Freedom, which works, Dan B P.P.S.S. You really aren't currently prepared to have us trust Indians, Tiawanese, Mexicans, etc. are you? Fortunately, we already largely do, economically speaking. Dan B

To: craig crawford who wrote (236369)	3/12/2002 12:07:42 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Why not outsource weapons? most of the world already does. Only a handful of countries export most of the weapons systems currently sold worldwide. Reality requires us to examine what the Constitution allows the federal government to do. If my humble understanding is correct the three things are: Provide for the common defense; unified foreign policy; maintain a common currency. Eliminating the un-essential parts of the government would reduce the need for income taxation (and most others). Perhaps that is why the original framers rejected the idea outright. The only viable revenue source left for the federal government was tariffs. A government has to have some revenue, however small. Do you think, that might have influenced their support for tariffs?