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To: impimp

Oh, you do? What’s with the overwrought North Korea crap, then? Do you really think or do you just emote? Sounds like your ox is being gored, so I suppose that explains it, but answer this, is impoverishing your primary market any sort of recipe for success? No, it’s not. You’re selling the rope with which you’re going to be hanged. Wake up. Find another way to make a buck.


29 posted on 01/22/2012 6:09:24 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I think you are the one who is “overwrought.” It is correct to observe that the Founding Fathers (and the Constitution) intended tariffs to provide revenue to the Federal Government. Not all of the Founding Fathers (and not the Constitution) provide for tariffs to “bring jobs back to the U.S.,” or whatever populist garbage your typical protectionist uses to argue in favor of a larger, and more intrusive industrial policy. And at the extreme end of that industrial policy, you have the example of N. Korea.


31 posted on 01/22/2012 6:21:18 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: RegulatorCountry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States

It is interesting how an increase in tariffs or some other trade restriction triggered each of the depressions in US history.

It is also interesting how the magnitude and frequency of recessions has gone down as tariff rates have dropped.


114 posted on 01/22/2012 3:55:13 PM PST by impimp
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