[Eric Pode of Croydon]

or from companies who are regulated for air, water, and working conditions, who pay extra for national social benefits, who get their raw materials from other equally regulated businesses

Oh great.

"National social benefits" is possibly the most communistic phrase I've ever heard from a supposed conservative on this board.

One thing for damn sure, with EPA/EEOC/OSHA/FDA/NLRB extending their powers more every year, we'll never export so much as a machine screw ever again.

I suppose you think it would be wonderful for the world's prosperity if every country had a regulatory bureaucracy as intrusive as ours?

[Political Junkie Too]

That meant social security and other deductions that employers pay.

-PJ

[mac_truck]

I suppose you think it would be wonderful for the world's prosperity if every country had a regulatory bureaucracy as intrusive as ours?

That's apparently what US negotiators think also.

Trading access to the US market in exchange for empty promises to improve environmental regulations and allow trade union organizing is just one way the proposed TPP agreement undermines the domestic US economy.

You can imagine how hard the commies in Vietnam laughed when they signed off on that one.