You are conflating micro and macro economics. You are also thinking in a vacuum.
And you are also apparently unwilling to admit that with every economic fluctuation, there is the possibility of someone being on the losing end. Not necessarily the case, but often is.
The question you should ask is if the business cannot compete by producing products in this country, should all the jobs just go away? Or, is the American worker who loses his job a person who is not capable of ever getting employed again? What you refuse to realize is that when you “plan” an economy to protect a certain class of worker, you are no better than a Politburo central planner. Which is to say, an economic failure.
When we had tariffs on foriegn imports....we had Americans producing and working. And, our taxes were lower
Now that we have shipped our wealth and jobs out of the country....we have few good jobs, high taxes, and the government subsidizing many.
I always ask on these Free Trade threads.... prove to me Free Trade works. I get a lot of theory...but not any facts.
Free Trade does not work.....even Communist China....who has benefitted more from Free Trade...has major economic issues now
Oh...and speaking about me being a “ Politburo Planner”.....
Karl Marx was also a proponent of Free Trade
Like I said....prove to me Free Trade works, and provide me facts. Don’t Alinsky me