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Free Trade Bad History: Free trade has reduced the costs and regulations that are involved with international business. In some cases this has lead businesses to move their facilities to poorer nations with very low wages, poor working conditions, and far fewer environmental regulations. These “free trade” agreements only benefit businesses in their pursuit of profit and cost cutting, the American citizens are not benefiting from these agreements.

Bad things: - "Free trade" policies simply allow corporations to freely access cheaper labor markets. - Rep. Bernie Sanders congressman said, “’free trade’ policies from 1994-2000 totaled over 6,000 jobs in Vermont and over 3 million nationally”. - The way they are currently crafted is solely for corporate stockholder profits. - opening foreign labor and natural resource markets to corporate exploitation under the guise of "free trade" Sources: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:T4_XYK3PaM4J:www.workerscenter.org/resources/%3Fpage%3Djames_freetrade02+free+trade+bad&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a