The problems the United States faces from trade have only increased since the U.S. joined the World Trade Organization in 1995. It has become increasingly more difficult to ensure the safety of our food as we import more and more each year. For this reason, it is important that Americans have the ability to quickly determine where their food is from.
The United States joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the mid-1990s with the promise of increased prosperity, but the result has been quite the opposite. Our membership in the WTO has stripped us of jobs, as well as our ability to choose the best policies for our country. The WTO is the embodiment of the free trade principles that have failed our country again and again. We must rid ourselves of our obligation to this job-killing organization if we ever want to restore America’s economic greatness.
When absolute power over all trade is given to a body of people that have their own political agendas, that power inevitably corrupts and leads to the detriment of all. We must become an independent fair trader with the world, trading without the WTO or any other “free trade” agreements. Doing so would take us a large step in a positive direction toward the restoration of our country’s economic viability, and the assurance that foreign interests no longer control America’s fate.
One of the main reasons our Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) do not work is due to the fact that other countries immediately implement a value-added tax system after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), while the U.S. still has not implemented a VAT.
WTO regulations created in the 1990s with regards to financial services still allow for the kind of trading and exchange that nearly destroyed the world banking system. And because the U.S. government decides to submit to the will of the WTO, a potential challenge to laws from that body would force a reversal.
Trade Reform
