Another key aspect, in addition to the unions, is all the unnecessary hiring-firing, environmental, and safety regulations, high, selective, anti-competitive taxes, government subsidies to farmers and businesses which work against competitive forces, the high cost of employee benefits, the road blocks to energy development, and the costs of preventing and fighting lawsuits. In other words, Democrat policies.
If all the time, money, and energy spent on fighting these trade agreements were spent on eliminating the above, we would be more than competitive with the "slave labor" wages.
If all the time, money, and energy spent on fighting these trade agreements were spent on eliminating the above, we would be more than competitive with the "slave labor" wages.I tend to agree in general, but as has been pointed out earlier, these agreements do contain other more political agenda items which do cause some of the concerns. But yes, in fact from a wage perspective, we are pricing ourselves out of the world marketplace. I don't see any backing off of that.