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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]randome
(34,845 posts)It's like immigration, isn't it? Sure, more immigrants means more people competing for the same jobs but so what? We're rich, we can afford that. And free trade is the same. We can give up a tiny bit of our sovereignty if it makes the world a little more united and a little less scary.
I can only laugh when some say the TPP doesn't have enough protections about the environment or workers' rights. It's a trade treaty! It's about trade!
Let's talk about environmental issues with environmental treaties. Let's talk about workers' rights with workers' rights treaties. But this idea that we should insert ancillary provisions wherever we can sounds too much like Republicans trying to insert abortion restrictions in a budget bill dealing with infrastructure.
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