That is true, but then the construction workers union kept pushing their wages up, the auto workers pushed their wages up, governmental regulation increased many times over and taxes continued to escalate. Other countries make good cars now, environmentalist whiners have caused the price of wood to skyrocket to the point that steel framing is now competitive(!), and our liberal education system continues to fund fruitless research from overpaid professors who teach nothing. There are many variables at work and fixing only one of them would have little beneficial, and perhaps a net negative effect.