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To: Protagoras
No one has a "right" to not have a flooded market, or a certain price commodity or anything else.

Well that explains in a nutshell why the Cato Institute is so laughable. Countries most certainly do have a right to control what products are allowed in, or whether or not there's tariffs placed on them. We can debate till the cows come home what the policy should be, but to deny a country's right to regulate commerce is hilarious.

141 posted on 07/10/2003 12:05:30 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
Countries don't have rights, they have powers. People have rights. The powers of government are sometimes legitimate, sometimes not.

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned: This is the sum of good government."

Thomas Jefferson, first Inaugural Address; March 4, 1801

144 posted on 07/10/2003 12:26:21 PM PDT by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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