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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Quotas, some comments and a parable
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 09:49:22 EDT
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> In article <2663@watcgl.UUCP> jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) writes,
> in response to somebody's statement that increased shoe prices due to
> quotas cost $5703 per job created:
> 
> >A *much* lower figure than was originally quoted, by the way.
> 
> I don't recall having seen any larger estimates of the cost of creating
> jobs via shoe quotas.  John may be referring to the $83,000 figure I've
> quoted in some of my articles.  But that was not about *shoe* quotas,
> it was about *textile* quotas.  Or I may have simply missed the article
 
My apologies - I misremembered your figure as being for the show industry.