Okay, so I want to continue shitposting here so I'm grabbing so low hanging fruit: The Our Revolution talking points for calling Congress to stop the TPP. Now lets dive in to some BadEcon:
TPP would expand to 12 other nations the same failed "free trade" policies
Free trade policies have not "failed". I don't think I really need to make the argument to this crowd, but here is a Heritage article outlining why trade is good.
Also, here is one of my favorite graphs showing GNI per capita in China. I don't know how to annotate, but you can clearly see that PNTR with the US in 1998 caused massive increase in human well being.
that have already cost millions of jobs and shuttered tens of thousands of factories across the United States.
Free trade eliminates some jobs and creates others.
For every job lost, NAFTA is estimated to create $450,000 in benefits.. I'm also not really sure where the "millions of jobs" comment comes from, as NAFTA is estimated by the EPI to have cost under a million jobs.
I'm also not really sure where this fear over lost jobs comes from anyways, as todays unemployment is lower than pre-NAFTA, and wages are higher than pre-NAFTA.
If TPP comes up for a vote, not a single word can be changed. And TPP can't be changed or repealed if it passes unless all 12 nations agree to changes.
Yes, that is how multilateral treaties work. I don't really see the problem here?
The TPP would give multinational corporations the ability to challenge laws passed in the United States that could negatively impact their “expected future profits.”
This simply is not true. Corporations can sue if a member nation passes a discriminatory law, or their property is expropriated. This is a good thing which gives legal avenues for investors to protect their property.
The TPP also would not give corporations power to challenge laws, but to recoup losses. If Vietnam decides to nationalize a factory owned by an American, Vietnam needs to pay the value of that factory to the investor. I don't understand how this is controversial, but okay.
Trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA have already done tremendous damage to American jobs.
Not true. See above. Unemployment is lower than before both agreements, and wages are higher today than they were pre-NAFTA.
In the past 25 years, nearly 60,000 manufacturing plants in this country have been shut down, and we have lost almost 5 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs.
Which is likely due to automation and productivity, not trade. Anti-trade activists spread this fearmongering "manufacturing is leaving the US" narrative, but its demonstrably false.
US manufacturing output is higher than its ever been. Its just that we use robots instead of people now.
Already the company that wanted to build the Keystone XL Pipeline is suing the United States for lost profits once activists forced the government to cancel the pipeline.
And the tribunal is likely to decide against TransCanada. But I don't see the point of citing a case still being litigated as proof of anything.
TPP would also mean that pharmaceutical companies could increase the price of prescription drugs, and generic drugs wouldn't be as available or as cheap.
I don't know much about this one, but USTR says that TPP will not interfere with TRIPS or access to generics.
Major religious groups oppose because they know what it could mean for some of the poorest people on the planet.
Most religious groups oppose homosexuality, and most religious groups object to the existence of other religious groups. This is a really weak point.
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