"Will" wrote in message
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George wrote:
"Martin Rost" rostmartin @ hot mail . com wrote in message
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Doesn't socialism also support subsidies. That is what I see Owen
arguing
against. Many turners subsidize their turning sales with their day job
income.
Martin



Fixed prices are not "subsidies?" Of course we will all assume, with
Owen's
optimism, that they will be fixed higher, not lower.

Are duties fixed by the state "subsidies" then? Countervailing duties,
import taxes etc?

Yep, that's what they're supposed to do - limit competition and/or favor the
home team. Soviets had a solution to that as well. Non-convertible
currency. In order to buy a foreign product, you had to be eligible to do
so, and pay in convertible currency.