5 REASONS FREE TRADERS SHOULD OPPOSE OBAMATRADE

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

The debate over whether Congress should grant President Obama fast track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreements has now been reduced down to a false choice between free trade and protectionism.

 

Matt Lewis of The Daily Beast writes, “it’s absurd for conservatives to oppose a free-trade deal just because the White House wants it.” Lewis argues that the only legitimate objection to fast track authority springs from genuine concerns about the cost of free trade to domestic workers. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)

has made the same case: “If the name Obama was nowhere to be seen in this, it would be fine for most people. We believe in free trade. That is one of our party’s primary principles.”

It is dishonest for Ryan and others to paint a stark – and false – dichotomy on fast track authority. In fact, there are several good reasons for those of us who are ardently pro-free trade to oppose fast track authority.

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Just say no to this one, Republicans...