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- From: dhall@trentu.ca (Derek Hall)
- Subject: Re: Trade War?
- Message-ID: <7NOV199215042153@trentu.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:04:00 GMT
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- In article <4eymoHu00iUxM8x25l@andrew.cmu.edu>, ashish+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ashish Arora) writes...
- >Excerpts from netnews.sci.econ: 6-Nov-92 Trade War? by J Storrs
- >Hall@foglet.rut
- >> Well, I'm surprized not to see some discussion of the "eminent trade
- >> war" (as CNN put it) here. Does anybody know if champagne is
- >> considered white wine under the new tariffs?
- >
- >The first salvo in the imminent and eminent trade wars is a tax on still
- >whites that does not include bubbly.
- >
- >And while I am on this subject I would like to note that all this is
- >covered by Von Mises, that it is another instance of silly meddling by
- >the govt. in our right to choose, that the current crop of politicians
- >are driving the country and indeed the world to imminent disaster, doom,
- >and destruction, that tax and spend liberals are the worst of the lot,
- >and that if you disagree with any of this, it only shows that you are
- >completely unschooled in economics and worthy only of the same contempt
- >that you profess to have for the culture of this great country, and
- >would do well to read von mises once again ....
-
- Excellent point. It's astonishing how many people miss that bit in all
- those first year Economics texts about Von Mises' work comprising the sum
- total of all correct economics. As we all know, a healthy science is one
- that permits no dissent.
-
- -Derek
-