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To: Lazamataz
Some standard Free trade arguments

Buggy whip

Trade deficit with grocer

Tariffs are sociaist/marxist

We are better off becuase the prices are lower

There is a start.
50 posted on 08/18/2003 8:11:31 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: harpseal
A few others:

If You Lose Your Job It's Your Own Fault

Work Harder

Retrain

Become Your Own CEO

53 posted on 08/18/2003 8:25:24 AM PDT by kms61
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To: harpseal
Some standard protectionist arguments:

10. Marx "favored" free-trade, therefore free-traders are Marxists,

9. The Founding Fathers "favored" tariffs, therefore protectionists are patriots,

8. Corporations are inherently evil, and should not be allowed to make a profit I think is excessive,

7. The U.S. doesn't manufacture anything anywhere, and exports nothing to no one,

6. Foreign countries subsidize entire industries, which is socialist and bad, therefore we should subsidize ours, which allows the "free" market to flourish,

5. Foreign corporations here "repatriate" profits to their home country,

4. U.S. corporations overseas do not repatriate their profits here,

3. There are no jobs here that I will do, but illegals are taking our jobs,

2. My job can be done better by a robot, or some fly-infested Third Worlder, therefore the government should protect my job, and

1. Government intervention in the markets causes no economic dislocation, but failure to intervene results in economic dislocation.


106 posted on 08/19/2003 11:47:05 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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