Let’s say that the free trade deal is, in fact, worth £75bn; then let’s assume that the barriers have been in place for 20 years.
That means that the lack of free trade over 20 years has cost EU and US consumers £1500 billion.
So, can we now bill the politicians for that amount? Can we sue them for making us £1500 billion poorer?
Please…?
DK
Gamecock
I am reminded of when California “deregulated” the electric power industry in 1996. To this day, Californians declare that “deregulation doesn’t work.”
Let’s say that the free trade deal is, in fact, worth £75bn; then let’s assume that the barriers have been in place for 20 years.
That means that the lack of free trade over 20 years has cost EU and US consumers £1500 billion.
So, can we now bill the politicians for that amount? Can we sue them for making us £1500 billion poorer?
Please…?
DK
I am reminded of when California “deregulated” the electric power industry in 1996. To this day, Californians declare that “deregulation doesn’t work.”
Here’s the “deregulation” legislation:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/95-96/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1890_bill_960924_chaptered.html
Had it been actual deregulation, one line would have done, “Government isn’t going to interfere with electricity production and sales anymore.”