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These policies may hurt agricultural producers elsewhere, but they also benefit poor urban consumers.
Of course, there would be some big gainers from agricultural reform, but they are chiefly consumers and taxpayers in rich countries.
In a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she wrote, “We believe this approach could be a blunt and imprecise instrument of fear, rather than one of persuasion, that will take us down a dangerous path and adversely impact US manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.”
As investors, consumers, voters, and citizens, we must make our voices heard, in order to ensure that finance is used to promote shared values and the common good.
But the responsibility to reconcile global commerce with the protection of basic human rights does not fall first and foremost on consumers.
It also argued that labeling GM foods is required in accordance with consumers' right to make informed choices about what they eat.
For example, national advisory bodies in the UK, the Netherlands, and France recently insisted on additional regulatory measures for GMOs intended to prevent adverse side effects--for example, allergic reactions--on consumers' health.
Nor is this fear limited to consumers.
Europeans consumers' growing awareness of their rights and farmers' increasing fear of dependence on multinational companies are symptoms of a deeper concern about values and priorities: the type of environment we want, the role of biodiversity, our tolerance for risk, and the price we are prepared to pay for regulation.
The adjustment will be even more painful in Europe, because a sovereign-debt crisis has a depressing effect on everyone – consumers, investors, and the public sector alike.
Studies indicate that it may hit consumers among the bottom 10% of income earners hardest.
Indeed, he has already pledged to impose tariffs on European cars – targeting, in particular, BMW and Mercedes – to help US car producers, even though this will also hurt American consumers.
As always, consumers are politically less powerful than producers, as their per capita losses are smaller than the producers’ per capita gains, and they face more barriers to collective action.
This burdens consumers across the EU, especially poorer people who have to spend a large share of their income on food.
This would enable Trump to proclaim victory at home, while raising the European standard of living by freeing Europe’s consumers from the yoke of the EU’s agricultural protectionism.
The reduction is even more impressive when one considers that 57 million additional energy consumers were added to the US population over the past two decades.
Second, health care had effective proponents – in Congress, among consumers, and even among some of its providers.
But putting in place an effective regulatory and enforcement infrastructure can be equally important, especially in areas where consumers have difficulty assessing the value of products and the risks they can pose.
Consumers need to know that the food they eat, the cars they drive, and the medicines they take are safe.
As developing countries upgrade their regulatory systems, they should focus on closing legal gaps that put consumers at risk and undermine market credibility.
Consumers get a wider variety of goods at cheaper prices.
The effect is even bigger – 62% – for the poorest tenth of American consumers.
The result was a heavy burden on consumers – and not much else.
But building the infrastructure is just the first step; now we must ensure that it is serving consumers’ needs and interests.
This is all the more urgent, given that consumers will not accept policies aimed at reducing emissions, such as a carbon tax, if they do not have an affordable alternative; after all, no one is expecting a drop in overall energy consumption.
Technological breakthroughs such as antibiotics and cars responded to a compelling need felt by a huge number of consumers.
The US Department of Defense was the only customer for integrated circuits in 1962, but by the end of the decade consumers were buying transistor radios and pocket calculators in droves.
This implies that US consumers will bear the costs of the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports.
The US will either continue to import from China, with its consumers paying more, or it will import from Vietnam, India, and Africa.
As even children know, the CAP is a handsome and totally undeserved present to wealthy European (especially French) farmers at the expense of the struggling farmers of developing countries and EU consumers.
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