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There Are No Tariffs on Coffee. Care to Guess Why?
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| March 10, 2017
| Donald J. Boudreaux
Posted on 03/10/2017 8:57:25 PM PST by TBP
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Walter E. Williams raises a good question.
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posted on
03/10/2017 8:57:25 PM PST
by
TBP
To: TBP
Coffee growing states made donations to the xlintonista foundation?
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:01:31 PM PST
by
thinden
To: TBP
I’m a hard-core gardener for a lotta years and you cannot buy viable coffee seeds. Kinda like tobacco. Maybe Colombia shipped the drugs in coffee tares starting in the 50s and it just kinda ‘stayed that way’.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:01:57 PM PST
by
txhurl
Did we lose our phenomenal coffee agriculture to South America?
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:02:01 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: TBP
Why no tariff on chocolate?............
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:02:39 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Gene Eric
They tried to grow coffee here in the late 1800s. Didn’t work........
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:04:03 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Red Badger
As an attorney would say, “asked and answered.”
CC
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:06:46 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: TBP
I’m no economist, but isn’t a tariff typically placed on a competing item produced by a foreign country? Cars, for example. If we don’t grow coffee, why would we put an import tariff on it? They aren’t undercutting American coffee growers. And I like coffee.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:08:34 PM PST
by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: Red Badger
In other words, not a “great, probing question” that speaks to trade imbalances.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:10:31 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: bk1000
We do — in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Kona coffee comes form Hawaii.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:12:29 PM PST
by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: txhurl
Viable tobacco seeds are available (for now) from many sources on the ‘net...
I know because I’ve “grown my own” for years, and Colorado has good weather for tobacco if the hail doesn’t get your leaf...
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:12:53 PM PST
by
elteemike
(Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
To: Red Badger
I don’t know. Ask Ghirardelli.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:13:00 PM PST
by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
Just a false argument against Trump’s possible tariffs.
As mentioned, there is little American coffee growing industry.
Not sure I’m in favor of tariffs in most cases, but the article is disingenuous.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:13:36 PM PST
by
AlmaKing
To: TBP
“Yet if Congress and U.S. presidential administrations really were, as their members often pretende, intent on apolitically using U.S. trade policy to level the playing field or to otherwise correct for distortions in global markets induced by other governments destructive policies, we likely should see U.S. tariffs on coffee imports.”
Utterly stupid. It we had large regions of the country with the climate for commercially growing coffee, then it might make sense. The free traitors just wont stop, will they?
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:14:27 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
To: Gene Eric
I’m surprised moochelle didn’t think of it! ..........
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:15:02 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Celtic Conservative
They are always looking for revenue sources. A small tariff on coffee imports would be fine by me and I drink a lot of coffee and tea as well
!....
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:18:48 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: TBP
Ok, I forgot about Hawaii. Kona is quite pricey if I recall. I don’t know if there is enough Kona to even be competitive in the normal coffee market. I can’t say I’ve ever had Puerto Rican coffee, but I’ll give it a try.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:20:25 PM PST
by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: TBP
If push comes to shove we can grow better coffee than anyone with greenhouses, robots, and injections of cannabis. LOL.
To: TBP
The bottom line, of course, is that every trade restriction is simultaneously justified publicly as a righteous intervention against some foreign evil-doing while, in fact, it is a monopoly-power privilege granted by an unethical government to a greedy and powerful domestic interest group.
There may be some truth in that statement, but it is only one half of the truth and the author is attempting to deceive us via a lie of omission.
The fact of the matter is that every time we impose socialized costs on our manufacturers (workplace safety, pollution control, etc.) we either impose similar costs on foreign manufacturers when their goods cross our border - or we lose our domestic manufacturers. In this modern, ultra-efficient, low cost shipping world it is just a simple fact - a small cost benefit when it comes to production is all it takes to make or break a producer. The author knows this and is lying to us by omitting this side of the story from his statements.
Hopefully he is just using Walter E. William's name to add luster to his article since Walter is one of my few remaining heroes and I can't believe he would try to deceive us like this fellow is doing.
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:23:06 PM PST
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: bk1000
Kona is quite pricey if I recall. So we obviously need a tariff to drive up the prices on imported coffee so Kona can compete.
Protect American coffee jobs!
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posted on
03/10/2017 9:26:17 PM PST
by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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