>Question though - legal to whom? If it's legal for Canada to subsidize >their lumber industry, it doesn't mean we have to accept it, right?
Legal in terms of the NAFTA. Sorry, I forgot to refer to that. I don't know what the NAFTA says about subsidizing. I'm sure there are restrictions and it's those restrictions that I was referring to. If they violated those, then we're justified. If they're not violating any agreements then we're wrong. From an ethical and moral standpoint, regardless of agreements, we are on shaky ground because our government engages in the same practices and for us to bitch and moan about it is hypocritical. It disappoints me to see Bush agreeing to this. The only ones that get hurt, ultimately, are consumers. Michael Corrigan Programmer Endora Digital Solutions 1900 Highland Avenue, Suite 200 Lombard, IL 60148 630-627-5055 ext.-136 630/627-5255 Fax ----- Original Message ----- From: Raymond Camden To: CF-Community Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: RE: What is he doing...... > Yeah, that's not a good thing. That's something Buchanan > would do, not Bush. To me, this is a serious departure from > his free trade stance of the election. If Canada is > illegally dumping/subsidizing cheap lumber on the US then the > tariff is justified. If they are subsidizing the lumber > industry and it's not illegal, then the tariff should be Question though - legal to whom? If it's legal for Canada to subsidize their lumber industry, it doesn't mean we have to accept it, right? > repealed. We do our own share of subsidizing here and it's > plain wrong no matter who does it. It is contrary to free Amen. If the current way of thinking was around 200 years ago, we would have subsidized horse carriages. Heck, I'm surprised we didn't subsidize derigible(sp) companies. -rc ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
