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Let me help you out http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eric+smidt+think+tank+hilary+clinton
Is that all the proof you have? You Trump supporters are ridiculous.
Note that this holds regardless of how wrong or ridiculous someone else's views are.
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A benefit not reflected straight in the gdp are increases in welfare due to decreases in prices from competition. Also, it sounds like this will also help other countries, which is generally a good thing. That said, the IP provisions bug me.
> A benefit not reflected straight in the gdp are increases in welfare due to decreases in prices from competition. This is the same fallacy Google has. You like one thing in the treaty so you vote in favor of some omnibus heap of garbage. The fundamental problem with this treaty is that there are too many unrelated things in it. Even if the treaty was net positive (which it probably isn't), we should never accept so…
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> A benefit not reflected straight in the gdp are increases in welfare due to decreases in prices from competition. This is the same fallacy Google has. You like one thing in the treaty so you vote in favor of some omnibus heap of garbage. The fundamental problem with this treaty is that there are too many unrelated things in it. Even if the treaty was net positive (which it probably isn't), we should never accept so…
I agree, unfortunately it seems like the political atmosphere for free trade is trending in the imo wrong direction. So if we have to pass this in order to get that then I think I support it.
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I agree, unfortunately it seems like the political atmosphere for free trade is trending in the imo wrong direction. So if we have to pass this in order to get that then I think I support it.
The political atmosphere for free trade is trending in the wrong direction because of trade deals like this . Rejecting them is the only way to get back to any semblance of sanity.
"The TPP requires the 12 participating countries to allow cross-border transfers of information and prohibits them from requiring local storage of data" Yup, definitely the wrong side of this. I can't see how this will get passed in the EU when it directly contradicts all the previous data protection rulings, but presumably there will be some undemocratic process.
The TPP is the Trans-Pacific Partnership which doesn't include the EU (only countries on the Pacific).