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Restore protective fees for imports: the chimera of "free trade"

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We are already seeing the calls for eliminating the very few retirement plans left -- education and government -- which will go the way of GM pensions and former steel workers' retirement plan. 

The answer, amazingly, is very simple: Restore protective fees on unfair foreign manufacturing, a sort of "misery tax" that recoups the money saved by oppressing foreign workers. 

Thus, there would be no advantage in sweat-shops, no hidden misery in in the goods imported legitimately.

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Free Trade?? No, It Is Predatory Pricing. by eileen kuch on Saturday, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:28:42 PM
Spot on but something is missing.... by jeff rock on Saturday, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:29:37 PM
For a very by Archie on Saturday, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:21:40 PM
The seeds have been sewn by Simple Truth on Saturday, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:25:00 PM
Protective Tariffs by Bryan Emmel on Sunday, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:22:17 AM

 
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