Will TPP force privatization of SOEs?

[Panich52]

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Dave Johnson
Will TPP Kill The Post Office?

Does the TPP contain provisions that corporations can use to force us to privatize “public” things ... so they can replace them with profit-making enterprises that provide a return only to the wealthy few? We need to see the provisions of TPP that are designed to regulate “state-owned enterprises” (SOEs) and see them now ... The U.S. Trade Representative website says TPP will have “groundbreaking new rules designed to ensure fair competition between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companies.” ... Will TPP enable the privatizers to declare things like our beloved U.S. Postal Service, schools and roads to be “commercial activity” that competes with private companies? How about our parks, libraries, public pensions, and other public services?

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[djean111]

1. keeping privatisation in mind, I think the TPP is meant to replace all that tedious and costly

country-by-country infliction of austerity and corporatism. The corporations will now run things, and remember, the less money people make, the more money the corporations keep. The fewer regulations there are, the more money corporations make and keep. This is the end game, corporations calling all the shots.

[Panich52]

3. W/ all talk of how job-positive & environ-positive TPP is, unions & greens had no place at

negotiation table. Only corporations, big pharma. That makes the "it's not like NAFTA" claims tough to swallow

[kenfrequed]

2. If this is accurate...

Then the TPP is even worse than I imagined. Honestly, privatization has been such an epic fail for the longest time. We need to recognize that there are some resources that no one should be able to claim ownership over.