Re:Ask HN: How exactly apart from taxes, can income inequal...
by manopeace on Friday May 06, 2016 @02:28PM
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Tarrifs on any goods coming from countries whose environmental and labor laws do not match or exceed our own.
What good are our laws to protect our environment when the goods that are sold here destroy some other part of the world?
What good are our labor laws when your sneakers are made by a ten year old across the oscean?
Don't like tarrifs? Then raise your standards to ours. It's not protectionism, you can lower these barriers with a few pieces of legislation. It's on them to fix the problem not us.
Fair trade not free trade.
Re:Ask HN: How exactly apart from taxes, can income inequal...
by dragonwriter on Friday May 06, 2016 @02:17PM
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> We did not exactly get a fair shake when it came to those trade deals like NAFTA that Clinton signed back in the 90s.
Minor nitpick, but NAFTA, as a deal -- that is, the agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico -- was signed by George H. W. Bush. The US law implementing the agreement was signed by Clinton.
I am not arguing for protectionism, but just go and try to do business south of our border in the same way they do trade with us. The trade deal is not symmetric on both sides.
People who craft these trade deals do some in secret, just look at the TPP deal going on now that is very controversial. Then the deal is rammed through approval, and there is little transparency.
How about making things a little more transparent? How about letting the public take a peak and have a little more time to digest what is being written?