> There needs to be a cost benefit analysis. <
You make some good points. Not saying you favored it, but those kinds of analyses is what got the shelves of Walmart filled with foreign junk while American factories were abandoned.
I don’t think there’s an easy solution to any of this. No one in this country wants to move an inch. Not the unions, not the government regulators, not the taxing authorities.
So the choice becomes between either a wildly expensive US source or a cheap foreign source.
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“So the choice becomes between either a wildly expensive US source or a cheap foreign source.”
Also, a Western farmer can’t ship grain over water unless he pays the Union rate or he uses a foreign ship. Shipping under the present rules means his grain price is easily beaten by a foreign supplier. His only choice to keep his price competitive is to ship the grain overseas.
I’m not disagreeing with you totally. I’m saying there needs to be a wholistic analysis. Other laws could be made to cover the many smaller issues that would arise.