Joe Haydn
HenryWallaceVP
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« on: November 26, 2017, 06:45:10 PM » |
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« edited: November 26, 2017, 09:41:55 PM by Fremont Senator Henry Wallace »
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Mozambique has democratized extensively since the 1980s, and I believe that a free trade deal would benefit both Atlasia and Mozambique. However, I am wary about the intellectual property protections included in this bill. I fear that they may benefit companies in the software, entertainment, and especially pharmaceutical industries at the expense of working Atlasians. A specific example of this, relating to pharmacy, is the possibility that these protections could increase drug prices. Also, intellectual property protections, which are basically a form of protectionism that still manage to be included in "free trade" deals like the TPP, could serve to continue the troubling trend of increasing income inequality in Atlasia.
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