Posted On: 04/27/2016 8:06:52 PM
Post# of 65629
Again....ISDS is over 50 plus years old....the so called "TPP" is how we don't go to war. That may seem a bit off......but that is how things were handled back in the day.
"In the first 160 years of its existence, the U.S. military intervened in foreign countries 88 times to protect Americans’ private commercial interests. The practice was first glorified and then vilified as “gunboat diplomacy.” Whether or not force of arms was used, the political dimension of state-to-state disputes was a fact of life."
ref: http://csis.org/files/publication/150116_Mill...te_Web.pdf
http://csis.org/
This is very similar to the misunderstanding after 9/11 regarding the Dubai Port controversy. Legislation was even entered as a stall tactic. it was complete nonsense...because owning a Port(managing/leasing et al) in other countries has been around since...forever.
I'll give you this though...if you do not believe in free trade and believe in tariffs......then you have to eliminate federal income tax. there's another history lesson....if anyone is willing to delve.
"In the first 160 years of its existence, the U.S. military intervened in foreign countries 88 times to protect Americans’ private commercial interests. The practice was first glorified and then vilified as “gunboat diplomacy.” Whether or not force of arms was used, the political dimension of state-to-state disputes was a fact of life."
ref: http://csis.org/files/publication/150116_Mill...te_Web.pdf
http://csis.org/
This is very similar to the misunderstanding after 9/11 regarding the Dubai Port controversy. Legislation was even entered as a stall tactic. it was complete nonsense...because owning a Port(managing/leasing et al) in other countries has been around since...forever.
I'll give you this though...if you do not believe in free trade and believe in tariffs......then you have to eliminate federal income tax. there's another history lesson....if anyone is willing to delve.
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