On Wednesday 09 May 2007 9:06 pm, Robert Calco wrote: <snip> > First of all, tariffs would not themselves solve it. Tariffs might > (as they did for the first 150 years of our national existence) > encourage what would solve it, namely, it might induce capitalists to > invest more in American labor, rather than to invest it in, say, > Chinese labor. It is the increase in per capita capital investment in > domestic labor that determines a nation's standards of living and > overall wealth. <snip> > The issue is one of protecting our wage and price structure and the > social fabric that holds it together <snip> > a modest ad valorem tariff on all articles of foreign manufacture. However, > there was a flip side: No tax on income for American > workers or the companies that employed them domestically. > > The idea is to encourage increased per capita capital investment in > domestic labor. Tariffs might be one means; there may be others. <snip> > Free trade is not about trade between systems, it is about division of labor > between systems--i.e., destroying any distinction between systems and > building a single system.
Hi Bob! So, does this concept have any current support? Never hear of it except from you. -- Regards, Pete http://www.pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
