Now you're getting warm and figuring out the purpose of this......
For them, its not really about the economy - like any good group of cons, the guys selling this snake oil can convince good but gullible people that this is a good thing, and they don't really care about the disruption.
There's always been a populist fringe that wanted to see a poorer, balkanized America. Seems to fit some romantic notion of the "liberty" of a peasant tyranny invisibly controlled by a few.
What??????????