tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post2267080175337493853..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: On the Right to Buy Tomatoes from a Farmer in MexicoRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-70516773146983629972016-10-21T19:01:58.774-04:002016-10-21T19:01:58.774-04:00The example you've given here boggles the mind...The example you've given here boggles the mind. Many of the architects may have spoken the words "free trade" out of their "public position" mouths, but when you look at what was implemented, even openly advocated, in some places, what the European Union actually is is a vast bureaucracy of managed trade. The European Union is a very poor example to cite for free trade. Montecristohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17915071769569425339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-91642613955327585932016-10-21T15:35:02.228-04:002016-10-21T15:35:02.228-04:00.
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.Montecristo here is the exact quote: " ....<br />.<br />.Montecristo here is the exact quote: " if you work and earn income honestly, that income is yours to use as you choose. You may use it to buy tomatoes from your neighbor or to buy tomatoes from a farmer in Mexico. It’s your money. "<br /><br />So why not substitute Mexico with North Korea ?<br /><br />You see, in a perfect world free trade is nice<br />but look at Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-50682239242851077982016-10-20T16:05:00.800-04:002016-10-20T16:05:00.800-04:00Dyspeptic and alexaisback2: clearly, your question...Dyspeptic and alexaisback2: clearly, your questions must rest on the idea that there is a prior claim on wealth. Whether this prior claim rests upon the presumption that wealth is not really the result of production or else is rooted in some other rationale for entitlement is open to question, but it is obvious that your position must rest on the presumption that there IS some prior claim. That&#Montecristohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17915071769569425339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-31145563476267243912016-10-20T14:01:31.648-04:002016-10-20T14:01:31.648-04:00Donald J. Boudreaux
North Korea. If I would like...Donald J. Boudreaux <br /><br />North Korea. If I would like to purchase product<br />from North Korea, because it is made less expensively<br />where I know the dictator Kim Jong-un<br />has enslaved his people, and I know the dictator shall <br />steal all of the profit and his workers are in some cases<br />starving to death. <br /><br />This is my right to trade with North Korea. Because Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-48068031669817794462016-10-20T13:19:18.270-04:002016-10-20T13:19:18.270-04:00I have a quibble regarding Boudreaux's hypothe...I have a quibble regarding Boudreaux's hypothetical. In reality you don't buy anything from a quaint and noble Mexican farmer or an American one for that matter. The apocryphal tomatoes are usually produced by a corporate agriculture conglomerate that spends huge amounts of money buying politicians, avoiding competition and desperately seeking subsidies paid for by the customers they Dyspeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16577705200928864154noreply@blogger.com