Flooded With Careless Language
30 September 2007
The Editor, New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Like many others, Louis Uchitelle writes of imports having "flooded the market" ("Once Again We're Driving What’s Not Made Here," September 30). Such language is as loaded as it is lazy. Floods literally devastate and kill. Persons in the paths of real floods are willing to pay to be spared the excess water.
In sharp contrast, consumers willingly pay to receive imports and would benefit even more if imports arrived in larger quantities. Having ever greater volumes of Toyotas and Krups coffee makers offered for sale downtown is quite the opposite of having ever greater volumes of water rushing destructively into people's homes and workplaces.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
The Editor, New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Like many others, Louis Uchitelle writes of imports having "flooded the market" ("Once Again We're Driving What’s Not Made Here," September 30). Such language is as loaded as it is lazy. Floods literally devastate and kill. Persons in the paths of real floods are willing to pay to be spared the excess water.
In sharp contrast, consumers willingly pay to receive imports and would benefit even more if imports arrived in larger quantities. Having ever greater volumes of Toyotas and Krups coffee makers offered for sale downtown is quite the opposite of having ever greater volumes of water rushing destructively into people's homes and workplaces.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Wednesday March 26, 2008 at 8:17pm