And why is that? Because regulations are so stifling here that the cost to do business is much less elsewhere. That, and not "free trade," is the origin of the bake sale. If you do not support free trade, what do you support? Central planning?
Bingo on that. Much of the taxes we currently pay are for an army of bureaucrats to tell everyone else "NO" when they want to do something.
Nope. Nothing to do with it. Regulations or not, China would still have .37 an hour average wages while we have a much higher standard of living. Not because of regulation.. but because of supply and demand working within the market. Negotiations and competition drove wages and benefits until guys like you decided to find someway to point blame at anything possible for selling out America for profit. At least the Rosenbergs were executed honestly for their version of it.