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- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Subject: Re: Trade War?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.211627.13181@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 21:16:27 GMT
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- In article <BxB4ME.9BC@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- > 2. France, et al, are democracies. Their voters have made it
- > clear that they WANT some of their tax money to be used for
- > agricultural subsidies. What the US is, in effect, saying
- > to the EC officials is that they should ignore the wishes of
- > their own voters and instead follow OUR dictates. This
- > sounds "imperialistic" to me. I don't see how we can
- > morally justify this while at the same time allegedly trying
- > to promote democracy around the world.
-
- You might like to consider a vaguely analagous situation in the US.
- Suppose that Iowans want subsidies, but Vermonters don't ? The federal
- government gets to impose the will of other states on the dissenters,
- in many cases, expecially those involving export.
-
- The real question here is whether or not the EC itself is a democracy:
- i.e. to what extent are the economic policies and negotiating
- positions of the EC a reflection of its constituents (individuals, not
- nations) ?
-
- Of course, one could ask the same of the US :-)
-
- -- paul
-
-
- --
- There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a
- little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider
- price only are this man's lawful prey.
- John Ruskin
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