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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSection of TPP describing benefits to American families has been leaked...
PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)Based on what I've read through WikiLeaks, you've got that right.
turbinetree
(24,685 posts)I thought I was going to learn something-------I did--------I'm getting nothing but a blank page
Thanks
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)C Moon
(12,209 posts)MaggieD
(7,393 posts)It's blank too. He has no plan to help US workers compete in the reality of a global economy.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Free Trade Agreements that are destroying our economy. That would be a big step forward. If that weren't enough he has come out with specific ideas.
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to include as a "countervailable subsidy" requiring action under a countervailing duty or antidumping duty proceeding the benefit conferred on merchandise imported into the US from foreign countries with fundamentally undervalued currency.
Defines "benefit conferred" as the difference between:
the amount of currency provided by a foreign country in which the subject merchandise is produced; and
the amount of currency such country would have provided if the real effective exchange rate of its currency were not fundamentally undervalued.
Determines that the currency of a foreign country is fundamentally undervalued if for an 18-month period:
the government of the country engages in protracted, large-scale intervention in one or more foreign exchange markets
the country's real effective exchange rate is undervalued by at least 5%
the country has experienced significant and persistent global current account surpluses; and
the country's government has foreign asset reserves exceeding the amount necessary to repay all its debt obligations.
See more of his stands and "plans" here: http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Bernie_Sanders_Free_Trade.htm
He is an advocate of Fair Trade.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)After it passes, you can see it in a year or so, but you can't take notes or talk about it.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)K&R, and a great big raspberry to pro-TPP types..
nikto
(3,284 posts)Apologies to Poe ...
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Now that's funny...and probably true.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)He's been consistent for years. He would have a hard time enacting all this because of the legalized bribery in DC, too many politicians on both sides are bought and paid for.
But his plan is simple, it has been consistent through the years. Raise the top marginal tax rate back to where it was from JFK to the B Actor president - between 60-75 % or so. Cut the loopholes that lets a company like Exxon-Mobil get millions in refunds (nice reward for ruining the Gulf Of Mexico). Eliminate gerrymandering. Quit fighting silly wars that cause more harm than good, cut the defense budget by a ton, quit building planes that don't fly in the rain, tanks that are just put in huge parking lots. Use the money and manpower saved to fix our crumbling infrastructure.
Again Eisenhower's chief warning as he left office was guarding against undo influence by the MI complex. He did he nail that one and obviously it fell on deaf ears.
Have universal single payer, much less expensive health care. We are the only non tinhorn country in the world who allows for profit healthcare beyond simple staffing/gatekeeping with a boss or two making maybe 60% more money or whatever. What on earth does a CEO making 12 million a year add to the health care delivery system?
And so on and so on, we have to get real and level the playing field much more than it is now.
So if you pay attention Bernie has been consistent from what he says and what he tries to do. Unlike Obama - and it not hard to prove that, it's all on tape.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Not using them as cannon fodder in feel-good some geopolitical move; the kind that makes well-heeled neoliberals feel good about themselves.