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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Trans-Pacific Partnership - Why this is going to hurt us all
 
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Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade


 Most obvious answer is so much of the negotiation has taken place behind closed doors, and there is currently a large (and well founded) amount of distrust in the US government at the moment.

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Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade

Vegetable posted:

Free trade benefits everybody on aggregate. The question is how those gains are divvyed within each country, and the answer in the US is basically "in a pretty lovely way."

From what I've seen (and I have NO idea how accurate this is), a hell of a lot of it revolves around IP and patents. That would benefit the US in a huge way, but mostly large corporations.

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