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To: dragnet2; Mad Dawgg
dragnet2: Perhaps it is time for a profit and loss statement of its costs and benefits. Undeniably, free trade has been a bonanza for the top 1 percent and many among our top 10 percent.

These are America’s winners from free trade. The losers? Middle Americans. The average U.S. family has not seen a rise in real wages in 40 years.

Mad Dawgg: And you think this is because of Free Trade

dragnet2: Of course, that an government intentionally flooding the country with upwards of 25 million low wage illegal aliens who devastated the wages of middle class America while choking off their hospitals, schools, social services, jobs etc...

You need to pay better attention.


dragnet2,
You are absolutely correct.

What many do not realize is that 'free trade', off shoring, flooding the country with illegals and 'guest workers', onerous regulations and even taxes are set up to benefit large multi-national corporations and finance at the expense of small business and middle class workers. There has been a massive transfer of wealth from the US middle class to large international corporate & finance, and the statists in power with a few crumb & dropping down to the poor, illegals, and many new immigrants.

Regulations and corporate taxes are both red herrings.

Regulations are often written with the 'help' of 'experts' provided by global corporate with the intent of suppressing competition from small and new businesses.

Corporate taxes work the same way. They hit small business bur are written so that large international corporate can easily dodge them. The Great Corporate Tax Dodge
117 posted on 01/24/2014 10:22:37 AM PST by khelus
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To: khelus; dragnet2
no you see both of you have missed why real wages have decreased and it has nothing to do with tariffs or Unions or EPA etc.

The minimum wage has increased several hundred percent.

But the dollar has been gutted by printing more and more money.

Real wages are gutted by the FED.

125 posted on 01/24/2014 10:34:46 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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