Reply #17: Nah

[Mattforclark]

"Tariffs are the answer. It's not only labor: It's the environment; it's dumping; even in countries with good standards of living the production cost is too low for fair competition."

The main problem with tariffs IMHO is that they #### the third world. That is not acceptable to me.



"The EU's tariffs on virtually all sorts of products are higher than the US's on their products. That's not fair."

AMEN! Death to CAP - AND - US farm subsidies.

"As for Latin America: Do you really think that having corporations there paying off their leaders to keep standards low is going to help the people down there?"

I would think that one solution to bribery would be to ruthlessly prosecute any corporations that have any presense in the US that engage in such activities.

"Look at Venezuela: The more American corporate influence there is, the less democratic a country becomes."

Causation has not been demonstrated, nor have I seen it demonstrated why such things are the necessary outcome of any sort of trade with Latin American countries.