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Tag: free trade

  • Despite Scrapping TPP, Donald Trump Is a Dedicated Free Trader

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    fitzdon

    Whether multi or bilateral, free trade is free trade, and workers, consumers and the environment pay for the profits of corporations. Less than a week after assuming office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order abandoning the 12 nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement negotiated by former President Barack Obama, but not yet ratified by the U.S.…

  • Congress Must Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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    CJ Oreilly

    (The TPP from the point of view of a Wisconsin organic dairy/beef farmer. Short and to-the-point.)   Trade is good, but “Free Trade” doesn’t work for farmersor workers or most everyone else. Free trade does, however,work spectacularly well for corporations…  

  • Is Water Pollution Trading Coming to the Midwest?

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    CJ Oreilly

    Pollution is a bad thing, right? Isn’t the ultimate goal of the 1972 Clean Water Act to make all water in the U.S. swimmable, fishable, and drinkable – as it once was? Well, think again… If you are a capitalist entrepreneur who believes, to paraphrase Reagan, in the “magic of the market place” then a…