[wyattearp]

[js1138] Anti free trade. Theocrats.

[PH]It really shows up in these science threads.

Pretty much nails it. I got into it with a few otherwise agreeable folks on free trade and tariffs, and it lasted three days or so. They couldn't understand the concept that tariffs on trade are taxes, paid by the consumer. Just like they can't understand that science isn't based on religion. Everything is based on religion. Why wouldn't science be, too? Try to explain it, and it's "persecution by communist followers of nazism". (and they don't understand what's wrong with that statement, either).

Sigh. I wont stop trying, but...

[Thatcherite]

Pretty much nails it. I got into it with a few otherwise agreeable folks on free trade and tariffs, and it lasted three days or so. They couldn't understand the concept that tariffs on trade are taxes, paid by the consumer.

I can never understand how self-proclaimed conservatives can't see this. Protectionism by any trading block is simply a tax on its own consumers. How could that be any easier to see?