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To: Slagle who wrote (65393)	6/23/2005 8:04:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Slagle, the impression I've gained during my USA travels over the decades is that small town USA is a great place. People are civil and friendly. Big smoke USA is hard and not too pleasant. I'm with you [to some extent] on tariffs. The purpose of a state is territorial so the border traffic should fund the protection of the borders. Taxes should be raised at the border, especially on easily taxed things such as ships full of crude oil and other bulk commodities. Making sudden major changes might not be very bright though, as economic dislocation is a bad thing. I don't buy the idea of "protecting" local industry by tariffs, though to some extent, that's the outcome of tariffs. I don't see why I should fund fat, overpaid, lazy workers when people who badly need the income and will work for a lot less would love to have the business. I can fund 10 poor people in India but only one American or Kiwi, so it's unethical in my book to force people to buy from local suppliers. That was the NZ way for decades, which led us to ruin. We were Albania of the South Pacific. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but we went from about number 3 in GDP per capita to way down the list to the bottom of the first world, though still clear of the third world. Mqurice