Our economy is built on cheaper labor. If you truly want more expensive labor, stop buying goods and services that are use cheap labor... Know why you can’t find many? It’s because the economy sustains cheap labor. Why pay an American $30 to build a widget when I can pay a foreigner $3?
C’mon, TexasGunLover. We aren’t talking about $3 per hour labor, here.
We are talking about (generally) highly educated people who find focus in technology industries, cutting-edge engineering firms, and so forth.
If our economy were truly built solely on ‘cheaper labor’, our goods would look like the stuff coming out of 1950’s Japan.
My observation is that American engineers, for example, are as talented as foreign engineers and American firms should look first to domestic resources rather than foreign.
One way to do that is to level the p(l)aying field. Now, if your issue is solely cost, why aren’t you railing against the ridiculous cost of a sound college education in the US?