Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[Included in The Bastiat Collection (2011), this article appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).] We have here, again, the same fallacy. We demand that foreign products should be taxed to neutralize the effect of the taxes that weigh upon our national products. The object, then, still is to equalize the conditions of production. We have only a