Santa loading toys produced by slave labor.
Senator Max Baucus [D-MT] has introduced a bill, S1631, which among other things would ban the import of goods produced by child labor, convict labor, or slave labor.
The bill is co-sponsored by Senator Charles Grassley [R-IA] the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.
Business groups and the Heritage Foundation are working to relax this ban. A story by David Sirota gives the details. Search the Library of Congress website for text of the bill and its status.
Thanks to Rachel Maddow TRMS for bringing this to our attention.
The American people are smart enough to know that the goods they buy come from the store. So how could they be produced in any of these bad ways?
If you have moral objections to goods produced with child, convict, or slave labor, you might want to support this bill. If you believe goods produced this way compete unfairly with American workers, you might want to support this bill.
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