On Jan 24, 2008 6:29 PM, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can understand that. Free trade != "fair trade". "Fair trade" is a > euphemism for massive government intervention into international (and > hence domestic) trade, which a free trader would oppose. As The > Economist has pointed out for over a century, you are better off > dropping your own trade barriers whether your trading partners do so > or not.
Although I've been defending the need for a tariff on foreign goods, I can absolutely see the abuse that could happen with that. Being genuinely naive about this topic, do you have any links? -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
