Common sense will tell anyone in America we cannot grow because we have become a consumer nation and now government is running the wealthy over to foreign countries because of the tax burden.NAFTA already has sucked the life out of the manufacturing base only for Americans to be at the mercy of foreign countries for goods and services or at the mercy of the weak dollar.I don’t see a very bright future in the US at all especially with the current administrations lack of economic logic.
NAFTA didn’t suck anything out of our manufacturing base. Trial lawyers, envirowacko regulations and unions did manufacturing in. We can, and should, change tort laws, cut regulation and remove political advantages given unions if we want to bring manufacturing back. That and fix our tax laws, which tax companies at a high rate relative to other countries, and prohibit the repatriation of profits earned outside the US without tax consequences.