The TPP is Supply Management
Despite the talk from the establishment about how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is about global free trade – and therefore Canadian cows, chickens and cars can no longer be protected by supply management – the reality is, is that the TPP is supply management.
It’s supply management on an international level so executive bureaucrats, politicians and crony-capitalists can create rules to further solidify their statist-social order.
Meanwhile, there is rampant supply management in the domestic economy where you and I are burden by thousands of government regulations that determine what kind of, how much of, and how soon we can provide goods and services to each other.
It’s not supply management strictly in the sense that the Canadian dairy industry is considered supply management. But the definition of words don’t seem to really matter for the TPP architects.
The TPP is a perfect example of Orwellian newspeak where “free trade” means two different concepts (managed statist-trade and actual free-market trade) and thus narrows the range of thought, or as Tom Woods would say, “the range of allowable opinion.”
For if the TPP is identified with free trade, no one will seriously ask whether staying out of the TPP will result in a lack of free trade. Of course gettin’ involved with the TPP will mean free trade! derr!!
But if the TPP was truly about free trade, then it would allow all individuals to homestead, contract and exchange without being inundated with tariffs, duties, levies, or other arbitrary restrictions on the movement of people, goods and services.
Real free trade doesn’t require a treaty, nor secrecy where citizens must rely on WikiLeaks for information.
Politicians seem to serving themselves but not in the way we’d like ’em to.
They sign international treaties with each other that award special interests in the short-term instead of policies that promote everyone’s prosperity in the long-run.
This isn’t going to end well for them.
