It is not the cost of our labor (at least not only this) that determines the jobs go out of country. It is the overall cost to do business. Over taxation and regulation is what really makes the products cheaper to create in other countries.
Most people understand that . . . emphasis on “most.”
If EVERY regulation and tax on manufacturing were removed, all of them, it would not even slow done the de-industrialization of the USA. Nobody in the USA can compete with billions of people that will work for 2 dollars a day. There is enough labor in China to supply the entire world’s labor at pennies on the dollar.
Corporations, for the last 100 years, have been undermining states rights clamoring and lobbying for “national” laws and regulations instead of the “hodgepodge” of 50 local laws and regulations. Well they got their way, the republic is dead and they helped create the Federal Monster we live with today. Now corporations, having decided to ditch the US worker for a few pennies on the dollar, use these same “national” regulations as a fig leaf to sell out American Industry. No heros here.