Posted on 11/26/2002 6:21:19 AM PST by nypokerface
General welfare and been counting evaluation are two VERY different things. I will give you example:
Imagine the society consisting of two families - one making 100K per year (doing some advanced staff) and second making 30K per year (doing some primitive staff). Then you introduce free market/free trade reform. As a result the more afluent family gains 30K and poorer family has to go by with 10K less. The total goes 20K up - and the whole economy goes up from 130K to 150K.
This is a huge gain from been counter point of view and a decline in general welfare as quality of life of richer people went up a little (or maybe not as they need to pay more for various side effects) while for the poorer people it is a disaster. And in the long run the income of the richer might decline as well as a result.
It is an economic fact that free trade benefits the general welfare. This is not a normative question. With free trade, the gain in value for consumers will always be greater than the loss in value to producers. It is a mathematical certainty. Any undergraduate-level Microeconomics book will show you the graphs.
General welfare and been counting eveluation are two VERY different things. I will give you example:
Imagine the society consisting of two families - one making 100K per year (doing some advanced staff) and second making 30K per year (doing some primitive staff). Then you introduce free market/free trade reform. As a result the more afluent family gains 30K and poorer family has to go by with 10K less. The total goes 20K up - and the whole economy goes up from 130K to 150K.
This is a huge gain from been counter point of view and a decline in general welfare as quality of life of richer people went up a little (or maybe not as they need to pay more for verious side effects) while for the poorer people it is a disaster.
Nothing is free.
There will never be a tariff free world, this is the biggest propaganda of a lie the U.N. (or whoever) has pulled.
We will still all pay the U.N. TOBIN TAX, and maybe the IRS will be dismantled and sheeples will cheer and accept the new 'pleasing' easy tax.
An example of a democracy is three wolves and a lamb voting on what's for supper. In a gobalist world we would be the lamb.
They have history of supporting governments that enforce islamic law, I guess that could be social conservatism in some circles.
Regardless, it would be a tough thing to advocate a democratic world government when the other governments of the world are not democratic.
A consitutional republic would be much more desirable, but we are having a series problem preserving one here now.
Americans are not that smarter. If the borders are abolished, the workers wages will gradually level out all over the world.
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