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Re:The Need for a Tax on Financial Trading by EliRivers on Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:23AM (#10988276)
Because barriers to trade have worked so great in the past...

Without commenting on this particular barrier to trade, it's certainly the case that in the past, some nations have put up barriers to trade that have worked out very well for them.

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Re:The Need for a Tax on Financial Trading by JBReefer on Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:59AM (#10988484)
Such as?
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Re:The Need for a Tax on Financial Trading by EliRivers on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:08AM (#10988547)
A number of nations that have managed to push themselves from impoverished status to first world over the last 60 or so years did it by shielding their nascent industries with various protectionisms. Japan and South Korea spring to mind.
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Re:The Need for a Tax on Financial Trading by n4r9 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:37AM (#10988776)
Banning the transatlantic slave trade has had its perks. That's just my opinion tho.
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