Open Left

The problem has always been what are minimum standards...

Is political freedom a minimum standard?
Is the freedom for workers to organize a minimum standard?
Are pollution standards a minimum standard?
Are worker safety rules a minimum standard?

The list can go on and on.  Who will establish these standards?  Who will enforce them?  How do you enforce them in authoritarian countries like China?  You cannot.

The only real answer is a product equalization tarriff, that would not reward countries for exploiting their people or their environment.  This would also be difficult but much more fesible than a unenforcible global minimum standards.

Regards,

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by: FLGibsonJr @ Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 11:03:01 AM CDT