[The Old Hoosier]

The negative effects will be felt not only here, but in the third world as well. As soon as you are voted out of office and your unsustainable policy is repealed, the problem of cheap labor will be even worse, because you will have crashed foreign markets and destroyed their few viable businesses.

Much better to help improve their economies somewhat and thus reduce the wage gap, making outsourcing less cost-effective.

[cpst12]

>>Much better to help improve their economies somewhat and thus reduce the wage gap, making outsourcing less cost-effective.

Reduce the wage gap? You willing to take a 80% cut in pay to get us started on reducing that gap?

[oceanview]

given the populations and birth rates of India and China, combined with their corrupt and totalitarian governments, there is a statistically infinite supply of cheap labor there, forever. So that idea is not going to work.