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In reply to the discussion: If you could vote on TPP for America like UK voted on Brexit, how would YOU vote? [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)apples with oranges.
The TPP is a single (albeit large-scale) trade agreement. The EU is an economic, political and social union. BIG difference. The UK just cut off its nose to spite its face.
My vote on TPP would be based on my own study of its provisions rather than on opinions from self-described "experts" or pundits, and certainly not on a DU poll that attempts to make complex things much simpler than they are.
In and of itself, no trade agreement is harmful. In fact, no business can be conducted without some sort of trade agreement and international business cannot be conducted without international trade agreements.
But what any agreement says, how it can be implemented, how sanctions for violations can be enforced, and how unintended harmful consequences can be mitigated, among other things, are essential to whether it should be accepted or rejected. For example, if we had had eight years of a Democratic administration instead of Bush-Cheney, many, if not all, of NAFTA's harmful effects could either have been mitigated or nipped in the bud altogether.