{"id":8,"date":"2006-02-25T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heresyblog.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2014-12-11T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T19:30:21","slug":"toldgr%c3%a6nser-for-masochister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heresyblog.dk\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Toldgr\u00e6nser for masochister"},"content":{"rendered":"

You reject abstract theories and little regard for abundance and low prices. You concern yourselves mainly with the fate of the producer. You wish to free him from foreign competition, that is, to reserve the domestic market for domestic industry. (…) We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price (…) This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!).<\/i> Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat (1801-1850) – Petition of the candlemakers<\/a><\/p>\n

Toldgr\u00e6nser laves af politikere, s\u00e5 forbrugere er tvunget til at k\u00f8be dyre produkter, lavet af inkompetente producenter. Told g\u00f8re produkterne i butikkerne dyrere, end de beh\u00f8ver at v\u00e6re, og g\u00f8re os alle fattigere. Det er forbrugerens situation<\/a> vi b\u00f8r v\u00e6re bekymrede for – ikke producenternes. Dygtige producenter vil tage kampen op, og blive endnu dygtigere til at forsyne os med billigere varer, for ellers g\u00e5r de fallit. Der er ikke nogen grund til at holde d\u00e5rlige virksomheder i live med kunstigt \u00e5ndedr\u00e6t i form af h\u00f8jere priser. Kunstig h\u00f8je priser har social slagside, for det er de fattigste, der f\u00f8rst opdager at de ikke har r\u00e5d til at k\u00f8be en vare, som de m\u00e5ske har brug for. S\u00e6t told p\u00e5 udenlandske varer, og de fattigste vil blive fattigere.<\/p>\n

I WTO bruges der meget tid p\u00e5 at forhandle toldgr\u00e6nser. Alle er enige om de skal ned, men alle vil have de andre til at g\u00f8re det f\u00f8rst. Hvis andre lande s\u00e6nker deres toldgr\u00e6nser, vil det v\u00e6re en god id\u00e9 for os at g\u00f8re det samme. Men lad os g\u00e5 skridtet videre: Hvis de andre ikke s\u00e6nker deres toldgr\u00e6nser, er det stadig en god id\u00e9 at s\u00e6nke vores. Som Arnold Kling<\/a> beskriver det<\/a>: “Vores handelspolitik burde v\u00e6re unilateral nedrustning, for vores eneste v\u00e5ben er selvmordsbomber.”<\/p>\n

Fattige lande holder investringer og moderne teknologi ude<\/a> ved at stille barrierer op for omverdenen. Et lands velstand har en direkte sammenh\u00e6ng<\/a> med hvor \u00e5bent landet er for handel med omverdenen. En typisk landmand i Afrika ville kunne f\u00e5 gavn af en traktor. En traktor ville g\u00f8re ham mere effektiv, og det vil blive lettere for ham at fors\u00f8ge sin familie og sende b\u00f8rnene i skole. Men en traktor er dyr, og fordi den skal k\u00f8bes i udlandet kommer der ogs\u00e5 told p\u00e5 den, s\u00e5 det bliver endnu sv\u00e6rer for ham. Lykkedes det alligevel at k\u00f8be en traktor, s\u00e5 skal den ogs\u00e5 vedligeholdes, og den skal givetvis ogs\u00e5 have reservedele i ny og n\u00e6 – som ogs\u00e5 er toldbelagt. Tolden forhindrer alts\u00e5 landmanden i at fors\u00f8ge sin familie. Hans udgifter er store, og priserne han m\u00e5 tage for sine varer stiger tilsvarende. <\/p>\n

En ting er, at t\u00e5belige regimer holder sin befolkning i fattigdom, noget andet er n\u00e5r velmenende humanit\u00e6re organisationer<\/a> og fallerede popstjerner<\/a> g\u00e5r imod frihandel.<\/p>\n

Et af de v\u00e6rste eksempler handler om AIDS-medicin, hvor lande som Kenya beskatter medicin<\/a> med hele 38%. Heldigvis har vi organisationer som Ibis til at bek\u00e6mpe de gr\u00e5dige medicin producenter <\/a> og deres dyre patenter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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