> You are saying per widget, the cost of labor is $15 of per US made widget? <
No. It’s the cost of labor, plus the regulatory costs, plus the taxes, plus the insurance costs, plus a dozen other things. American industry is hamstrung by almost too many things to count.
I am quite familiar with your posts. You favor tariffs to help bring industry back to America. If you’d care to check, you would see that I agree with you completely. A nation without industry is helpless.
My point - and I stand behind it - is that it business leaders are not the main villains here. Local, state, and federal governments have arranged things such that many American goods are no longer price-competitive with foreign goods.
This has got to change. And that change has to start in DC.
Your post is ridiculous and your assumptions are total BS.