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In reply to the discussion: Trade agreements lower America's living standards to raise others. Angers me. [View all]TBF
(31,922 posts)I should probably write an OP on this, but I will try to be succinct here. We can't raise them ALL because some are already too high. What we need to do is level out the boats a little. We can pull down the billionaire boats a bit, and redistribute some of the good stuff (shelter, food, health care) to all folks globally.
In other words, it makes no sense for certain individuals to own multiple palaces globally while others live in tents. There is a way to do this peacefully and that is called re-distribution. If we are going to have global "trade" agreements they must be subject to some sort of global policing, and a way to stabilize the boats is to impose a global "tax".
There is really no way around this. The Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamas of the world will "stabilize" by bringing folks DOWN to a low common denominator. This allows the billionaires to remain untouched (those same billionaires who coincidentally pay their outrageous speaking fees ...). Until we decide a little more parity is in order we are going to be subject to their whims.