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I don’t need to. Cruz provided the proof with his vote enabling Obamatrade. If he’ll sell out Main Street to get elected POTUS, he will do the same to get reelected.

Of course you don't.

You have sided with ALL of the Democrats(Except Obama), All of Unions, and All of the Progressive groups, including the Communists. It maybe time for you to take a step back and find out how you have been mis-informed.

In the effort to help you get more informed on the TPA and TPP, here are some salient facts you seemed to have overlooked, or did not know about:

Myth 8: FTAs (and free trade generally) benefit large corporations at the expense of working people!

Mostly false. There is little doubt that FTAs benefit some U.S. corporations and workers, while harming others—that’s kinda free-market competition’s thing.

SHOCK: FTA predicted to reflect/amplify USA's comparative advantages & disadvantages: http://t.co/PUgLrpL3O8 pic.twitter.com/INypfluXSk

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) March 16, 2015

In general, however, the corporate winners (who tend to be in growing, innovative industries) from U.S. FTAs outnumber the losers (who tend to be in archaic, uncompetitive ones). And every legitimate economic analysis of the TPP confirms this general rule. FTAs also contain rules and exceptions for well-connected stakeholders. As I’ve repeatedly discussed, this is a big reason why FTAs are “third best” option for U.S. trade policy.

Nevertheless, there is also little doubt that (i) FTAs are pretty much the only trade liberalization game in town these days; (ii) while unpalatable, the cronyist exceptions in U.S. FTAs, are relatively minor compared to the overall liberalization; and (iii) the biggest winners from such liberalization aren’t corporations or the mega-rich, but consumers, particularly poor ones.

Hey, average American [especially low-income ones], here’s how you benefit from free trade http://t.co/0T2XnveplW pic.twitter.com/sLf8p6p62c

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) May 20, 2015

(More here.) These gains wouldn’t be possible without FTAs (as much as we free traders wish they would be).

Good oped from NRF's Matt Shay on how US FTAs, made possible by #TPA, benefit US consumers: http://t.co/PLck4zo6dI pic.twitter.com/0IYlQwwV0L

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) May 11, 2015

Thus, the idea that FTAs like the TPP, or any other reduction in global trade barriers, benefit the 1 percent at the expense of working class is just not true. Indeed, as we at the Cato Institute are constantly pointing out, the real cronyism in trade policy takes place on the anti-trade side of the ledger: corporations and unions lobbying government to shield them from free-market forces, always at consumers’ expense. It’s precisely for this reason that many of the U.S. lobbying dollars spent on TPP aren’t from pro-export mercantilists (although there are plenty of those, too) but from those anti-competitive industries (autos, steel, textiles, sugar, etc.) and unions that are seeking to scuttle the deal or secure their own special exemptions.