asks<\/a>, \u201cDoes the welfare of non-Americans count in the creation of U.S. economic policy? Secondly, to what extent, if at all, should it count?\u201d Or, more fully: \u201cResponding to the impact of globalization on U.S. workers by increasing tariffs and\/or trade barriers involves making tradeoffs between the lives of Americans and the lives of workers overseas. We can\u2019t pretend otherwise. How should Christians respond to this tradeoff?\u201d<\/p>\nHe gives an exceedingly wise answer.<\/p>\n
Christianity has an inherently cosmopolitan thrust: \u201cWhile Christian cosmopolitanism breathes a different spirit and unfolds along a different trajectory than the cosmopolitanism of today\u2019s global elite, there is an inescapably cosmopolitan dimension to Christian identity (Phil. 3.20, Eph. 2.19, Col. 3.11, Rev. 7.9, 5.9, etc.). Further, common ownership of the earth and the universal destination of goods (which normally are distributively actualized through private property, not contrary to it), means that Christians, and Christian policymakers, cannot but hold some version of Christian cosmopolitanism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAt the same time, \u201cGod permits, even requires, humans to have preferential commitments to sets of people smaller than humanity in general.\u201d That means \u201ci<\/span><\/span>t\u2019s entirely appropriate to identify and support policy interventions that aim to benefit fellow Americans.\u201d At the same time, \u201cthat cannot be the only dimension of policy evaluation for Christians; Christians do not have the luxury of ignoring the impact of those policies on peoples overseas (peoples who include a fair number of fellow Christians).\u201d<\/p>\nThere are policy options that benefit Americans without harming non-Americans. \u201cFreer trade means bigger pies,\u201d and that implies that \u201crather than reimposing losses on other nations by tariffs and trade barriers, nations might consider win-win policies such as directing national gains to assist workers in markets disproportionately burdened by freer trade.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nHe ends with this: \u201cAmerica \u2018first\u2019 cannot mean American \u2018only,\u2019 at least not for Christians. Christian Americans cannot help but ask the question, just how steep a tradeoff between American lives and foreign lives, and at what point do we cross the line from appropriate preference to inappropriate neglect?\u201d
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