Well, that's scary...
... this gentleman's done a comic-based explanation of the economics relevant to the TPP and why it sucks so badly. I hadn't ever had some of that stuff explained so clearly before. I was particularly unclear on the fact that treaties can apparently override established law, without going through the usual legal process.
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And, according to the US constitution, a treaty is equal in authority to the constitution itself. A treaty cannot violate the constitution, but it can override federal law (though in real life, it's considerably more complicated than that, of course, with Congress passing enabling law to comply with the treaty).
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