At 01:25 AM 3/5/2002 +0100, Christoph Reuss wrote:
On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 18:31:20 -0800, Harry Pollard wrote:
At 12:34 AM 3/3/2002 +0100, Christoph Reuss wrote:
Harry Pollard wrote:
You don't advocate the butter mountains - you merely advocate the
restrictionist policies that create the
, a tax upon which we could raise
revenues. Hmmm.
arthur
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From: Brian McAndrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 3:46 PM
To: Harry Pollard
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Crazy European Union
Harry,
Canada needs you to stop the bully tactics being
: RE: Crazy European Union
Arthur,
I think George would vent his spleen. He was a fine free trader - writing
perhaps one of the best books on free trade ever written (Protection of
Free Trade). However, at the end of PFT he points out that the benefits
of moving barriers between peoples do
Arthur said:
. If stumpage fees are
constant. Well, they shouldn't be. They should be allowed to rise.
I've always wondered why the most conservative capitalists amongst us are so
against charging competitive rents for their cattle ranches that use public
lands to graze their herds.
The following is an example of the kind of Bush think that passes for
thought in the U.S.Lest I seem unclear let me say that I do think the
voting population suffers from a problem of critical thinking.The real
problem is that those who claim to be Aristotelian and trained in Jesuit
The Coldwater Group stated:
It's built because the government(s) pay
the farmers to overproduce. Then the overproduction is piled into
mountains. Of course consumer prices are kept high for the people have
to pay for this nonsense. (We have our butter and cheese
mountains over here.
Ray,
Where have you been since you left the reservation? Paying subsidies to
farmers and fixing prices high is one of the pretty little functions of
most governments - maybe all governments
Both subsidies and fixed prices create the mountains of butter and cheese
we find over there and over
Chris,
There you go again. Like most socialists you know far better what people
should do than they can possibly know themselves.
The insanity is the butter and cheese mountains.
Yes, that's real insanity.
Harry
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Christoph wrote:
Harry Pollard wrote:
It
Harry Pollard wrote:
How ethical is it to transport food from a region of starvation to a region
of food abundance/surplus ? That's the insanity of Free Trade
There you go again Like most socialists you know far better what people
should do than they can possibly know themselves
The
Chris,
It's your mind set, again.
You don't advocate the butter mountains - you merely advocate
the restrictionist policies that create the butter mountains.
You say I advocate the food transfer insanity and again you
miss the point.
I don't advocate any insanity. I merely think that people
At 12:34 AM 3/3/2002 +0100, Christoph Reuss wrote:
Harry Pollard wrote:
You don't advocate the butter mountains - you merely advocate the
restrictionist policies that create the butter mountains.
Neither. The EU's butter mountains are a result of corrupt concentrations
of corporate power --
pete,
You seem to be suggesting the Euros should tax their people with import
tariffs, then give it back to them. Seems a waste of time and effort.
They should simply take the subsidized imports and encourage Americans to
increase their subsidized.
Tariffs favor producers over consumers - which
Brian,
Hear, hear!
Harry
Harry,
Canada needs you to stop the bully tactics being used by the US (for
the 4th time!) re softwood lumber The US says we sell our lumber
too cheaply in the US even though the US construction industry loves
our prices Don't let them impose tariffs on us
To: Harry Pollard
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Crazy European Union
Harry,
Canada needs you to stop the bully tactics being used by the US (for
the 4th time!) re softwood lumber. The US says we sell our lumber
too cheaply in the US even though the US construction industry loves
our prices. Don't
In the cause of trade transparency world-wide, it was worthwhile for the
European Union to take proceedings in the World Trade Organisation against
US tax laws by which US exporting corporations receive $4 billion in tax
breaks. Since the US has been found guilty in January by the WTO
arbitration
On the contrary, the EU would be crazy to follow Keith's advice, because
then the EU's domestic producers would sit on their products and need
even higher subsidies (or lay off workers which then cost unemployment
subsidies)
Chris
Keith Hudson wrote:
it means that the EU, under WTO
rules,
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Reuss) wrote:
On the contrary, the EU would be crazy to follow Keith's advice, because
then the EU's domestic producers would sit on their products and need
even higher subsidies (or lay off workers which then cost unemployment
subsidies).
It
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