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Re:General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Mic... by jandrese on Thursday November 10, 2016 @03:52PM (#12924226)
I suspect your average Congressman has never read a single one of those studies but have gotten letters from donors telling them that they want free trade deals.

It's pretty hard to convince someone in Pennsylvania that free trade deals are good for them when the only factory in town just shut down because China flooded the marked with unbelievably cheap steel.

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Re:General Motors to Lay Off 2,000 Employees in Ohio and Mic... by thenewwazoo on Thursday November 10, 2016 @03:54PM (#12924253)
I'm not really arguing the relative merit of free trade in terms of local effects. I'm questioning your premise that, in order to oppose tariffs, one must be somehow bought by corporate interests.
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