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Free trade is the free lunch.

And those 1,200 jobs are just the visible ones. The extra billion dollars probably came with further negative effects somewhere else.

(German coal mining was (or still is?) in similar territory: the subsidy necessary to keep a few mining jobs around was way higher than what those guys got paid.)



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