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In reply to the discussion: Free Trade- just what can we live without? [View all]Corporate666
(587 posts)You need to learn at least a little about the subjects you speak as if you are an authority on.
Free trade is the reason you can go online and buy stuff from Canada or China without paying big fees to get it. Trade deals don't allow corporations to go overseas - they have always been able to go overseas and always will be able to - regardless of any trade deal. The trade deal simply reduces import fees to bring stuff back in.
Most of all, that benefits the consumer. Life is WAY BETTER now than it was 30 years ago. Largely because of the prosperity that free trade brings. It is an economic fact that trade is good for economies.
And the USA most definitely is first in many things. Medical research, space flight, electric vehicles, energy, software and applications, electronics, nobel prizes, highest rated universities, highest rated hospitals, inventions and many more things. And the silly idea that nothing is growing can be proven wrong by the fact that Tesla announced the Model 3 and took in several hundred thousand orders in a matter of hours/days.
Your life is provably better for trade deals. It is an economic fact. Denying this puts your squarely in the company of climate change deniers, evolution deniers, 9/11 conspiracy theorists and flat-earthers.