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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness?
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 02:16:34 EDT
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This quote is from an article about textile import quotas that appeared
on the editorial page of the local newspaper a couple of months ago:

"The North-South Institute in Ottawa estimated in 1981 that consumers
had to pay an additional $500 million for their clothes, or about $83,000
a year for every job saved." (That works out to about 6000 jobs.)

It would actually be cheaper for the government to pay those people
$20,000 a year not to work.  Now, it's unlikely that those workers are
getting paid much more than maybe $20,000 each.  Wonder who gets the
rest of the money?

To find out, do the following experiment: when your newspaper prints an
article about harmful effects of import quotas watch the letters to the
editor for the next few weeks.  See who writes letters defending the
need for import quotas.  If you know somewhat about economics you can
often recognize a high bullshit level.
-- 
David Canzi

Hmmm, folks must not be heavily into freedom these days. -- Garfield