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To: Soul of the South
"Without tariffs and government imposed quotas, middle class jobs in industrialized countries will move to locations where lower wages can be realized."

Wishful thinking. Tariffs are simply no longer possible. All the imposition of a tariff will do is cause MORE industries to move out, and more rapidly. The pool(s) of capital have gotten so large and so geographically diverse that there is simply no way they can any longer work.

Quotas "might" work, but I haven't seen any evidence of it.

So, given the above, what measures exist that can be applied without imposing an even more tyrannical and interfering government than we now have???

6 posted on 10/26/2012 5:46:14 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog

Easy: develop the “developing” world as fast as possible, so their wages rise to levels comparable to ours. It means short term pain here (and there - the early phases of industrialization aren’t pretty) - but in the long run everyone will be better off.


7 posted on 10/26/2012 5:51:05 AM PDT by I Shall Endure
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