The Softwood Lumber Dispute
Thursday November 10, 2005
Not everyone agrees on my take on the Softwood Lumber Dispute:
"My argument against complete free trade are three fold. Firstly the author stated that tariffs create a deadweight loss but isnt this true of all taxes. Governments need to raise resources for defence and other expenditures, why target tariffs as the most evil of taxes as opposed to income or value added tax (tax on expenditure) which also create deadweight loss."
Read more in A Letter on the Softwood Lumber Dispute.
"My argument against complete free trade are three fold. Firstly the author stated that tariffs create a deadweight loss but isnt this true of all taxes. Governments need to raise resources for defence and other expenditures, why target tariffs as the most evil of taxes as opposed to income or value added tax (tax on expenditure) which also create deadweight loss."
Read more in A Letter on the Softwood Lumber Dispute.
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