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To: Texas_Dawg
Bro, I can swear on my life that if you ever see me unemployed, which I fully realize is absolutely possible and God could do it tomorrow should He choose... you will NEVER hear me blaming my unemployment on any President or asking for the federal government to do something like put tariffs on Americans to get me a new job. You know why? Because unlike you, I am a conservative.

As I have repeatedly stated tariffs are for the protection of the nation from government interference in the American market if you had actuually read Adam Smith and David Ricardo you would fully understand this. I owuld hope you would support tariffs on imports to America as sound policy based upon teh proven net benefits of tariffs in some situations not because of your personal unemployment.

Now I have asked you before and I am asking you again have you come accross any such net quantitaive analysis showing a net economic harm from a tariff? I would really appreciate the refernce. Does the fact that not even the Cato institute has such a net analysis lead you to any conclusions when clearly such a net analysis would butress the theory that tariffs are harmful a theory that is widely touted by them. I am starting to think that maybe I was wrong about my presumption that there were cases when a protective tariff caused a net harm to this nation. After all the result from supposing protective tariffs were usually bad for this nation should produce a plethora of such studies and tehy should be easy to find. The fact that they are not easy to find logically calls into question the theory that many protective tariff are in the net harmful to the USA. Think about it.

322 posted on 08/25/2003 7:35:22 PM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: harpseal
Now I have asked you before and I am asking you again have you come accross any such net quantitaive analysis showing a net economic harm from a tariff?

I showed you one from 2002 and you said it was biased. Whatever. Not wasting my time trying to convince you that economic isolationism is a bad thing.

325 posted on 08/25/2003 7:38:58 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Proudly posting without the </sarcasm> tag for at least a few months.)
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