1) the unconstitutional federal minimum wage forcing businesses to raise costs, cut jobs, and eventually look elsewhere for more favorable cost conditions.
Get Real!
Jobs started their initial migration out of this Country when Clinton signed NAFTA in the early 1990's.
Federal regulations like the minimum wage never had much of an effect until more recently.
NAFTA was the core issue and after many, many years it has reached truly debilitating proportions.
Minimum wage, suffocating regulations, union protection, and high taxes all by your not-so-friendly feds can be directly traced to economic weakness and the loss of jobs and business in our country. The feds are great weakeners of America’s economic strength so we are not as competitive on the open market.Then people like you come along and say the problem is the open market. NONSENSE! The open market simply reveals the weaknesses caused by the imposition of the unconstitutional and bone-headed interference of the federal government.
Protectionism never has, does not now, nor never will work because it solves nothing and actually makes matter worse by raising tariffs which is a tax that forces higher prices to the American consumer thus further weakening our economy. Tariffs are like shooting yourself in the foot and does NOTHING to solve the root causes of American competitive issues brought on by the feds. It just layers more government imposition over that which caused the problem in the first place - exactly what the Left loves to do.
Get real yourself.