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- From: cthorne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles E Thorne)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Trade War?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.160010.21690@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 16:00:10 GMT
- Article-I.D.: magnus.1992Nov10.160010.21690
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- In article <JACKSON.92Nov10090438@kaos.stsci.edu> jackson@kaos.stsci.edu (Bob Jackson) writes:
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- >All the attention is focused on the reputed beneficiaries of
- >the trade war, American farmers.
-
- >No one seems to mention the impact of higher prices
- >on the Americans who only eat food and who don't grow it.
-
- Subsidies from either side have this same effect. Both American and
- French taxpayers pay for the respective agricultural subsidies. Both
- French and American consumers pay higher costs as the expense of protecting
- a political powerful group.
-
- However, I expect we'll see a lot more protectionism in the years ahead.
- With the large U.S. budget deficit, sending military aid to the rest of the
- world and allowing them to send products to the U.S. in competition with
- our producers will become politically undesirable in the years to come.
-
- Charlie
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