If You Don't Stop Inflicting Hardship On Your Citizens, We Won't Stop Inflicting Hardship on Ours
1 May 2006
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
Dear Editor:
Rob Portman and Susan Schwab assert that "the U.S. cannot keep its current offer [to dramatically reduce our agricultural subsidies and tariffs] on the table - let alone unilaterally agree to make deeper cuts to our domestic support programs - without additional and substantial steps by the European Union and other major partners, including those in the developing world, to open their markets" ("Free Trade Vision," May 1).
Why not? Why must we Americans wait for other governments to stop abusing their citizens with wasteful handouts to special-interest groups before our government stops abusing us with wasteful handouts to special-interest groups?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
Dear Editor:
Rob Portman and Susan Schwab assert that "the U.S. cannot keep its current offer [to dramatically reduce our agricultural subsidies and tariffs] on the table - let alone unilaterally agree to make deeper cuts to our domestic support programs - without additional and substantial steps by the European Union and other major partners, including those in the developing world, to open their markets" ("Free Trade Vision," May 1).
Why not? Why must we Americans wait for other governments to stop abusing their citizens with wasteful handouts to special-interest groups before our government stops abusing us with wasteful handouts to special-interest groups?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Friday February 16, 2007 at 5:06pm