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To: DoughtyOne
First of all, we don't know how many dollars "escape." (In other words, you are still overstating the number). Secondly, even the dollars that "escape" return.

You might not approve of the way they return, or the way they "escaped" in the first place, but the moment you start thinking that you can find a way to direct in in one way or the other, you end up causing more problems than you solve. That's the fundamental difference between free-traders and protectionists. The former instinctively know that the government will find a way to screw things up, and the latter is always thinking "well, maybe this time . . . ."

It's why everyone ignores my Caterpillar example: there's no reason why Colombia should by Cat bulldozers from the EU instead of the US. Yet the protectionists argue that signing a free trade agreeement with Colombia will cost high-paying manufacturing jobs.

156 posted on 09/01/2010 11:25:54 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Those dollars that return are nullified by dollars that wouldn’t have to. You are certainly creative in a certain dishonest ignorant sort of way.


158 posted on 09/01/2010 11:35:01 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (UniTea! It's not Rs vs Ds you dimwits. It's Cs vs Ls. Cut the crap & lets build for success.)
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