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Originally posted by Spanky
CAFTA is a bill that will eliminate tariffs between the CAFTA countries and the United States. Eighty percent for now and all tariffs completely in the next twenty years. Yet, you and these other "experts" that is not enough for you. You want the bill also to include labor and environmental protections or you don't vote for it. This does not make sense.
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You're not reading very carefully. CAFTA includes provisions about, e.g., labor protections as well. For whatever reason -- I'm banking on a hostility to labor protections -- it does not included the sorts of enforcement provisions that have been in previous free trade agreements. You don't seem to what to defend this on the substance, you just don't want to talk about it.
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Those provisions of NAFTA were included to buy Democrat votes. The business community did not want them.
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This make no sense. Most businesses that have to abide by environmental and workplace protections want their competitors to have to play by the same rules. This is why market-based emissions-credit trading programs work.
Is there some reason why you want U.S. businesses to have to compete on an unfair playing field? Are you just that hostile to the idea of protecting the environment, or workplace safety?
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