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Free Trade and Protectionism, Cnt’d.
Alright, so we aren’t going to settle this here, obviously. I’ll offer my final thoughts on the matter: First, as Logan pointed out, it’s more than a bit disengenuous to claim that America owes its superpower status to a high tariff. Why not its abundant natural resources? Its relatively lax regulation of business? Its...
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In Defense of NAFTA
(HT: Carpe Diem) If NAFTA is so terrible, why is it that more U.S. jobs have been created in the 14-year period after NAFTA was passed than in the 14-year period before NAFTA? There is a great editorial in the WSJ comparing the effects of NAFTA on Texas & Ohio. Texas has gained 36,000...
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Why Does Obama Hate Mexico?
Rich Lowry wrote a great article debunking the rhetoric Obama has been using the past few weeks criticizing NAFTA. For Barack Obama, hope can triumph over anything, except for open trade with a neighboring country with an economy 1/20th the size of ours. Then, all is despair. Obama’s culprit is Mexico, our third-largest trading...
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