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In reply to the discussion: Thinking about the TPP. FDR regarding tariffs: [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)24. I've posted many times that the TPP is only good if it has strong labor and environmental standards
in it.
We've seen no proof of their inclusion. And even if they are in there, without 'fast track', which Obama will never get from a republican congress, republicans will just strip out them out and pass their own version.
So I agree with you with respect to the TPP. If it meets much higher standards on labor and the environment, as China and some republicans fear, then republicans will kill it or delete the standards. If it does not meet those standards, it does not deserve to be approved.
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Here's an actual liberal view(which is of course correct). Maybe you can post something from Fox
RiverLover
Dec 2014
#7
FDR was right on. Tariffs should protect the living standards of the American worker.
Enthusiast
Dec 2014
#2
"In FDR's view high tariffs shifted the burden of financing the government from the rich to the poor
pampango
Dec 2014
#16
Very little of the TPP has anything to do with what tariffs are still existing.
djean111
Dec 2014
#3
I certainly hope you did not think that with my post I was suggesting that the TPP is just about
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#13
Of course, he campaigned against and negotiated away most of the high tariffs he inherited
pampango
Dec 2014
#15
Unfortunately, as our high trade deficit and declining wages prove, even multilateral trade
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#17
But the wealth is safely in the hands of the wealthy elite and multinational corporations where
Enthusiast
Dec 2014
#20
Indeed I believe FDR knew that the elite have prospered under high tariffs and low. The key
pampango
Dec 2014
#22
I've posted many times that the TPP is only good if it has strong labor and environmental standards
pampango
Dec 2014
#24
Yeah, we heard about those mythical strong labor and environmental standards
Enthusiast
Dec 2014
#25
That was pretty quick going from "completely abandon any and all trade deals with nations that do
pampango
Dec 2014
#29
Wages declined from the early 1970's to the mid-1990's then increased. A NAFTA tragedy?
pampango
Dec 2014
#31