>> We need import tariffs.
That only masks the problem by jacking the cost of goods, and feeding payroll welfare. The idea of fair trade is preferred to raising the price of imports. Import tariffs only creates short-lived, artificial competition.
Bureaucracy, regulations, and unions are primarily responsible for the woebegone manufacturing in America.
FWIW, I fully support unions in the private sector, but unfortunately, they end being their own worst enemies. If it were not for the competition of Japanese imports, we’d still be manufacturing ATF burning rust buckets.
We have only your say so, that what you say is true.
I think we’ve already seen quite clearly, what we’re doing now isn’t working.
I say we have enough data. Time for import tariffs, and American jobs.
Exactly correct. And these internal issues can be dealt with through policy here in the US - without having to deny consumers access to goods because our government and bloated, corrupt unions prevent American companies from competing properly.
The foreign competition is precisely why American consumers are no longer stuck buying Big-3 junk. These companies were eventually FORCED to compete and at least now make a somewhat decent product (though still probably not up to foreign standards). Somehow Toyota and Honda are very profitable while making cars in the USA. The difference is they avoid anti-business, pro-union states like Michigan and Ohio and instead go to right to work, forward thinking, pro-business states in the South. There is nothing wrong with the American worker, the problem is policy that is easily correctable if Americans recognize the problem and vote for appropriate changes.