MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Michael Madigan wrote: > >> Protectionism doesn't work, however, placing equal tariffs on incoming >> > goods as our goods get put on our exports only seems fair. > > > Ok...I can buy into that idea. That does sound fair. However, they'll > argue that it's not a $1 for $1 that's fair since our $1 is not > equivalent to their $1 currency. > LOL, that's a reeeeeaaallly simplistic way to see it. For example we can also argue that you subsidize your agriculture thus allowing your farmers to sell at lower prices thus lowering the world's agricultural prices, our country exports these goods and imports your manufactured goods so you are obviously extracting money from us by manipulating the market. And that's just one of the points under discussion.
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