If you could vote on TPP for America like UK voted on Brexit, how would YOU vote?

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68. "TPP is worse than the WTO and NAFTA with respect to human rights, labor rights and the environment"

It is all of those things.

Nations under any of these FTAs are not allowed to engage in practices to protect their public from exploitation (everything from minimum-wage increases to OSHA-type standards for workplace safety are grounds to pursue litigation under the investor-state relations clauses of these agreements) by foreign governments and corporations. It's also a violation if you pass environmental standards that foreign companies feel they cannot compete within as it denies them equal access to your marketplace. And on and on and on. They give no gains for human welfare that they don't take away with the other hand.

FTAs are literally universally designed to gut progressive advances globally and prevent future advances as being detrimental to business interests. The sooner people start insisting that free-trade become a dead concept, the better for humanity everywhere.

It's rare that the extreme right is right about anything...but they're dead-on FTAs. They benefit nobody but the oligarchs; they're bad for America, they're bad for the citizens of our FTA partners, they're bad for nature, people, labor, the planet, human rights, worker rights, worker safety...fuck FTAs.

The only good FTA is a dead FTA.