Free trade deals like NAFTA are beneficial for everyone, even as President Trump continues to signal his hostility toward them.
A. Barton Hinkle writes:
Among the endless injuries Donald Trump has inflicted upon the country, few might do more lasting damage than leading so many Republicans to abandon their commitment to free trade. Millions of people could end up poorer because of it.
“We are in the NAFTA (worst trade deal ever made) renegotiation process with Mexico & Canada,” the president tweeted while Houston was drowning. “Both being very difficult, may have to terminate?”
The awfulness of NAFTA is a refrain for the administration; not long ago the U.S. trade representative, Robert E. Lighthizer, claimed “at least 700,000 Americans have lost their jobs due to changing trade flows resulting from NAFTA. Many people believe that the number is much, much bigger than that.”
Many people do indeed. Many people also believe the moon landing was fake, George W. Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened, and Barack Obama is really Muslim. Many people are often full of it, as is Lighthizer.b
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