[RegulatorCountry]

The nation or nations with the buying power win. Without markets, production is pointless. If a given nation has buying power due to a large market, and the United States certainly has one of the largest if not the largest, then it holds most or all of the cards, given the will to direct trade with external partners in a manner that is beneficial to the domestic market. The domestic market is driven by consumers, you, me and all legal residents. Governments acting to the detriment of US legal residents should be penalized, in order to maintain the health and buying power of the market. Just how that is to be accomplished is a matter that is yet to be determined. It doesn’t necessarily have to be punitive, but punitive measures must always remain on the table.

[Wayne07]

I don't know if you meant to, but you just regurgitated the left wing/Paul Krugman/Keynesian/Obama view of economics.

If you consider yourself a conservative, take the time to reconsider. A nation's power and wealth is all about its ability to produce, not consume. Read a little Milton Friedman, or Hayek!

[Wayne07]

Watch this short Milton Friedman video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrg1CArkuNc

[arthurus]

Ideally the nation would abjure all forms of government "welfare" and of regulation of commerce and would remove taxation of commerce altogether unless the income tax were to be dropped and replaced with a uniform tariff for revenue. Prosperity would explode and cement America as The Great Power nonpareil. Ideally.