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The recently leaked regulatory coherence text from the TPPA negotiating round gives foreign corporations and powerful lobby groups the right to exert undue influence over New Zealand’s policy and regulatory decisions. Rights that New Zealand citizens would not have.
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“What is at stake’, NZ Not for Sale Campaign Patron, Bryan Gould, says “is our ability as a self-governing democracy to decide our own laws”
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If it’s any consolation we are not alone.
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Susan George, writing for the Transnational Institute notes that “Soon the neoliberal model will become irreversible...”
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“By a close vote on 28 September 2011, the European Parliament passed the Commission’s plan—a far-reaching takeover of individual countries’ capacity to set their own budgets and to manage their own sovereign debts.
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We’d recommend that you check this article out
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With the European Commission seriously considering a tax on financial transactions - sometimes referred to as a “speculation tax”- its opponents are shifting their campaign into high gear. The predictions of disaster from the financial industry if the European Union chooses to implement it are, however, misguided.
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The opponents' claims go along three lines: the tax will not be enforceable; the tax will just be passed on to consumers and therefore will not be taking money from the intended targets in the financial industry; and finally, it will raise the cost of capital and therefore slow growth.
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Each of these objections is either altogether wrong or hugely exaggerated.
Checkout this article by Dean Baker and get the whole story
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Also well worth a quick browse is the Global Unions’ Statement to the G20 Summit
The recently leaked regulatory coherence text from the TPPA negotiating round gives foreign corporations and powerful lobby groups the right to exert undue influence over New Zealand’s policy and regulatory decisions. Rights that New Zealand citizens would not have. 
