The Obama regime calls various
countries' public-interest
policies "trade barriers". These policies protect health, privacy
and financial stability.
The US should adopt many of these measures, but you can't expect that
to be done by someone who favors "free trade".
I sent a message to Senator Markey's office opposing the TPP, and
received a message saying that he judged trade treaties in terms of
gain or loss of US jobs. While that may have made sense back when
trade treaties affected mostly the amount of exports and imports, it
is absurd today. Nowadays the main effect of trade treaties on
employed people is that they help the executives and owners get a
bigger share and pay the workers worse. The treaties also attack our
rights by abolishing public-interest policies and giving business more
power. Finally, they undermine democracy by giving business lobbies
an additional lever to use.
So I phoned his office and said the senator was too soft on trade
treaties.
You can phone your elected officials, too.