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1 posted on 10/12/2009 12:43:07 PM PDT by Neil Peart
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To: Neil Peart
Preventing trade means that we use more resources to produce less wealth.

But it can shift the remaining wealth from the population as a whole to one identifiable group. Concentrated benefits, diffuse costs.

2 posted on 10/12/2009 12:54:47 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The People have abdicated our duties; ... and anxiously hope for just two things: bread and circuses)
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To: Neil Peart
Also classic, Dr. Walter E Williams on the Steel Tariff: Economic stupidity
5 posted on 10/12/2009 1:06:15 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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