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Australia has apparently negotiated that the cost of medicines will not rise for us.
At least, that's what they're saying.....
The TPP guarantees drug companies five years exclusivity and bans all generics for that time period. Medicines are going to cost more.
Can you link that bit for me? I'm on my phone....
We haven't been told about the 'no generics' rule.
Hillary Clinton spoke in favour of this deal more than 40 times. Now she says she is against it. Is it a wise re-assessment on her part or a dishonest flip flop to appease her left wing supporters - or both?
It means the Yanks can sell their Frankenstein GM filthy foods wherever and to whoever they like and will not even have to bother labelling them. You will still get supersize portions and it will still taste like polystyrene but it will let you grow two heads and if you're really lucky two dicks.
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Legal thingies are not my area, but there could be other potential risks too, like minimum wages etc., if I understood correctly:
Trade Pact: How The Trans-Pacific Partnership Gives Corporations Special Legal Rights
By David Sirot
www.ibtimes.com/trade-pact-how-tran...ves-corporations-special-legal-rights-1975817
"Recently leaked drafts of the agreement show the pact includes the kind of “investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) provisions written into most major trade deals passed since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
- Those provisions allow companies to use secretive international tribunals to sue sovereign governments for damages when those governments pass public-interest policies that threaten to cut into a corporation’s profits or seize a company’s property.
Unlike corporations, unions and nonprofit groups have no ISDS-style power to unilaterally try to make sure the trade provisions they care about are actually enforced.
- "Corporations under ISDS can bring cases without their national government’s permission, while unions and environmental groups in order to enforce the labor rights and environmental rights in these agreement have to get their government to bring the case," said Silvers, the labor federation's associate general counsel. The problem, he said, is "if their government doesn't bring the case, they don’t have any recourse."
The discrepancy is a deliberate effort to make sure trade policy includes a “tilt toward giant corporations,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said."
All that this does is highlight that this issue has nothing to do with trade and everything to do with government control, the soft encroachment of Socialism. Nobody, but nobody will benefit from this agreement other than politicians and a few crony Capitalists who went along to get along and help write the regulations...
That's ok.... coz they'll be able to buy good clean GM-free Aussie food.
That's ok.... coz they'll be able to buy good clean GM-free Aussie food.
So people talked about Medications and GMO's.
Anything else that might be affected by the TPP ?
If you want to understand the hidden costs of trade barriers and the positive influences of government, I suggest you search for Frederic Bastiat's Sophisms of the Protectionists when can be downloaded for free and read some of his essays, especially the one on the Broken Window.