The Massachusetts senator has come out forcefully against the misleadingly named trade deals, the TransPacific Partnership and its ugly sister, the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Mind you, these treaties are not about trade. Trade is already substantially liberalized and in keeping, only five of the 29 chapters of the TransPacific Partnership deal with tariffs.
What these pacts are primarily intended to do is strengthen intellectual property laws to help US software and entertainment companies, along with Big Pharma, increase their hefty profits, and to aid multinational by permitting the greatly increased use of secret, conflict-ridden arbitration panels that allow foreign investors to sue governments over laws that they contend reduced potential future profits.
Looking out for us little people, the TPP. To see if they can charge more/pay less, and empty any coffers of taxpayer funds. What a great gift from Hillary and Obama.
Anyone who is still dishonestly blathering that this "agreement" is merely about tariffs and elevating workers is, IMO, full of crap, stupid, or disingenuous.
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