What would David Ricardo or Adam Smith say about this logic?
"I am still a cotton farmer, and I have been in the fields in Mali, where all the work is done by families with small land holdings. Cotton production costs 73 cents per pound in the United States and only 21 cents per pound in West Africa, so American farmers do need protection in the international marketplace."
Jimmy Carter in the Washington Post, Dec 10, 2007.
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