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bioemerl  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Free Market: It's Like Uber, But for Everything

Government mandated labels are what I am referring to. Force there to be those rather than ban the product.

    This does not follow at all. The TPP does not advance free markets or free trade. It exports US-style industrial protectionism, and denies sovereign states the ability to enact basic consumer protections.

I'd rather hear what it does rather than abstracted terms for what it does, because I don't believe you.





dublinben  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wish I could provide you with citations, but I can't. The actual text of the trade agreement is confidential, and the deliberations have been kept hidden from public scrutiny. The little that we do know has come from partial copies leaked by wikileaks and others.

Wintermute  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but surely you could at least provide sources based on the leaked versions?

bioemerl  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The actual text of the trade agreement is confidential, and the deliberations have been kept hidden from public scrutiny.

So why in the world are you able to tell me that it "harms national sovereignty" if you don't even know what the bill says?