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In reply to the discussion: Free Trade- just what can we live without? [View all]larkrake
(1,674 posts)Free trade has destroyed our manufacturing. Trade deals are not necessary for you to go online and buy from Canada, or Madagascar. The TPP and other deals allow our corps to go overseas, pay workers $2/hr and sell back to the US with no consequence, no taxes. We do not have to commit to other trade countries without getting any return.
This isnt the 20th century, we have evolved. Today I can get online and buy anything without my country being tied to unfair trade deals. The US isnt first in anything, isnt growing in any field but weapons' People, tribes, regions and countries did trade and should trade equally, but when one party pays a fee to buy, and the other gets it free, that is unbalanced..
Disconnection from the world is not even possible today. Dont be silly, but I prefer bliss over poverty and falling bridges.
FDR had no choice- he was pulling the country out of the depression. Lack of tariffs has done much to bankrupt us, thanks to Rageanomics and Bush borrowing to pay for 2 wars. Republicans kept giving subsidies to multinational corps, and cutting taxes so tell me, who or what will pay for the reconstruction of water lines, roads, bridges and ongoing drought that has hit half the country.
No, what we have been doing since Ragean is NOT Progressive- it is slow deliberate death.