“Because hopefully the higher prices stay here, where workers have more disposable income and increase the demand.”
Why should I pay more money to buy the things that I need? Why is it right for me to pay more for bread, just because you want a higher wage?
What people benefit from is an increase in productivity, in making more for less, or from time-saving, in being able to do more in the same span of time.
Protectionism circumvents the normal operation of the market to find the best way to do things.
There are many things that the US does poorly compared with other countries, simply because of her natural resources. The best way is not to prevent the import of cheaper products, but rather to use these products to build other things.
Why are American workers idle? Unions, hostile work environments make them inefficient.
Get rid of the unions, lower business taxes, and watch America be the factories for the world.
Libertarian economic philosophy is killing us:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16639
parsy, who thinks we need to reinvent America