tailieunhanh - the bastiat collection volume 1 phần 7

giữa tự do và can thiệp, tôi thấy không có con đường trung đạo. Một lần nữa, nó sẽ vẫn còn được chứng minh rằng sự can thiệp sẽ luôn luôn hoạt động để lợi thế của bạn, và thành kiến của người giàu. Nhưng, không có, điều này đối lập cực đoan, điều này đối lập tự nhiên của lợi ích, không tồn tại. Đó là chỉ là một giấc mơ tà ác của lầm lạc và | 14 Conflict of Principles There is one thing that confounds me and it is this Sincere publicists studying the economy of society from the producer s point of view have laid down this double formula Governments should order the interests of consumers who are subject to their laws in such a way as to be favorable to national industry. They should bring distant consumers under subjection to their laws for the purpose of ordering their interests in a way favorable to national industry. The first of these formulas gets the name of protection the second we call outlets or the creating of markets or vents for our produce. Both are founded on what we call the Balance of Trade A nation is impoverished when it imports enriched when it exports. For if every purchase from a foreign country is a tribute paid and a national loss it follows of course that it is right to restrain and even prohibit importations. 259 260 The Bastiat Collection And if every sale to a foreign country is a tribute received and a national profit it is quite right and natural to create markets for our products even by force. The system of protection and the colonial system are then only two aspects of one and the same theory. To hinder our fellow-citizens from buying from foreigners and to force foreigners to buy from our fellow-citizens are only two consequences of one and the same principle. Now it is impossible not to admit that this doctrine if true makes general utility to repose on monopoly or internal spoliation and on conquest or external spoliation. I enter a cottage on the French side of the Pyrenees. The father of the family has received but slender wages. His half-naked children shiver in the icy north wind the fire is extinguished and there is nothing on the table. There are wool firewood and corn on the other side of the mountain but these good things are forbidden to the poor day-laborer for the other side of the mountain is not in France. Foreign firewood is not allowed to warm the .