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kentuck

(111,104 posts)
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 01:33 PM Jun 2015

A free reign for corporations...

That is what the TPP offers them.

It's not enough that tens of thousands of manufacturers have already moved their operations overseas, they can now hide all their profits overseas also.

Not only that, they pay almost no taxes to our country. Even as they ship most of their products back to America's market.

On top of that, they pay no tariffs on their products. They get the cheap overseas labor also. They get their cake and eat it too.

And just to gild the lily, they get their tax breaks for moving their jobs off shore.

And best of all, they control the lives of workers around the world by controlling the wages of workers around the world.

They rule absolutely.

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A free reign for corporations... (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2015 OP
K&R jwirr Jun 2015 #1
A Democratic president SamKnause Jun 2015 #2
And I forgot to add... kentuck Jun 2015 #3

SamKnause

(13,108 posts)
2. A Democratic president
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 01:44 PM
Jun 2015

has basically sold our country out from under us.

It will allow Republicans (and Democratic politicians) to deregulate

and privatize the entire U.S.

He colluded with the enemies (yes, the Republicans are the enemies of this

country) to force this travesty upon the U.S.

The IMF and the World Bank will now become involved with the affairs of the U.S.

Our justice system will become null and void and decisions will be handed down

by corporate lawyers.

This is insane.

kentuck

(111,104 posts)
3. And I forgot to add...
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 02:14 PM
Jun 2015

...that America continues its slide into 3rd World status. We have been sold down the river by these so-called "free trade treaties".

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