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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by jessaustin on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:28PM (#12935434)
Yeah tires are really expensive now. It stands to reason, that they would pick a product that even poor people have to buy. Couldn't have tariffs on fancy phones and luxury cars!
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by chillacy on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:56PM (#12935606)
Yup. More details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/23/how-o...

We all collectively paid $1.1 billion dollars to give up to 1200 people a job in the tire industry.

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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by YuriNiyazov on Friday November 11, 2016 @07:44PM (#12935840)
Yup, and we should've been willing to pay a whole lot more, so that more people kept their rust-belt jobs, and weren't swayed by Trump's "jobs, jobs" appeal.
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