{"id":13510,"date":"2015-10-18T16:58:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13510"},"modified":"2015-10-18T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:58:53","slug":"the-tpp-is-supply-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13510","title":{"rendered":"The TPP is Supply Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TPP is Supply Management<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Despite the talk from the establishment about how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is about global free trade \u2013 and therefore Canadian cows, chickens and cars can no longer be protected by supply management \u2013 the reality is, is that the TPP\u00a0is\u00a0<\/i>supply management.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s supply management on an international level so executive bureaucrats, politicians and crony-capitalists can create rules to further solidify their statist-social order.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not supply management strictly in the sense that the Canadian dairy industry is considered supply management. But the definition of words don\u2019t seem to really matter for the TPP architects.<\/p>\n

The TPP is a perfect example of Orwellian newspeak where \u201cfree trade\u201d 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, \u201cthe range of allowable opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019 involved with the TPP will mean free trade! derr!!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Real free trade doesn\u2019t require a treaty, nor secrecy where citizens must rely on WikiLeaks for information.<\/p>\n

Politicians seem to serving themselves but not in the way we\u2019d like \u2019em to.<\/p>\n

They sign international treaties with each other that award special interests in the short-term instead of policies that promote everyone\u2019s prosperity in the long-run.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t going to end well for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The TPP is Supply Management Despite the talk from the establishment about how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is about global free trade \u2013 and therefore Canadian cows, chickens and cars can no longer be protected by supply management \u2013 the reality is, is that the TPP\u00a0is\u00a0supply management. It\u2019s supply management on an international level so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[9938,337,9939,7617,710,9936,9937,804,808,4912,880],"class_list":["post-13510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-duties","tag-free-trade","tag-levies","tag-mises-institute","tag-secrecy","tag-supply-management","tag-tariffs","tag-tpp","tag-trans-pacific-partnership","tag-treaty","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13511,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions\/13511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}