Here Comes The Hard Sell On The Transpacific Partnership Agreement

[KansDem]

15. Next we'll be seeing "Oh, the voters won't like it, but we need to ramp up 'trickle down!'"

While it’s true that not everybody gains equally from free trade, there is no shortage of evidence that eliminating barriers to the flow of goods and services is beneficial for economies overall — boosting exports, enhancing efficiency and reducing prices for consumers. But tell that to angry voters. In one 2012 survey, more than half of respondents in the U.S. believed the country should either renegotiate or pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), even though it had gone into effect 18 years earlier.

No "shortage of evidence?" What "evidence?"

Where has Michael Schuman been? Doe he really think free trade is "beneficial for economies overall?" All he has to do is walk around a bit and see how "beneficial" free trade has been...