>>NZ is your example, so can you please connect your assertions to this: http://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/release_full.cfm?id=323028
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>>The "un-level playing field" is that New Zealand's pastures allow production of first-rate dairy products more cheaply than anybody else on the planet. Especially Idaho. Therefore it's necessary to protect US dairy interests from the effects of free trade by NZ.
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>>Put that in your "econ 101" pipe and smoke it. ;)
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>The guy's name is Crapo.
>Craponomics, huh?

Yep, that's his name and he is a U.S. Senator from Idaho. (Republican, fwiw.)

Tamar