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> Because a Californian individual and a California based company pays federal taxes

The jobs mostly affected by the free trade are low skill and therefore low wages jobs. Those jobs barely pay any income taxes.

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Not true, the study references both low skill and high skill jobs. Not to mention there's corporate taxes and other revenues that the government receives that they wouldn't otherwise from a foreign company.

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