Free Traders only play the hand they have been dealt. They are answerable to the share holders and the prospect of losing market share and with it shareholder value will not be tolerated. Further blame the American consumer who price shops for everything. In a free market the equivalent good differentiated only by price will win out. Absent any tariff protections countries with lower labor costs, lower taxes and less regulation will beat the costs of US labor, high taxes and onerous regulations.
Given the right business environment those same "Free Traders" will kick the ass of any top down, oppressive society in the world just like they did in WWII.
Let’s then change our system so that producing domestically is the most profitable choice.
That means reducing regulations and bureaucracy.
Getting lawyers out of the way.
But the quickest step to start with, is (significant) import tariffs.
Remove the incentive to outsource.
As of 2009, the dollar value of our imports, was virtually identical (within a single percentage point) to our national tax bill.
So. Let’s shift that tax expense, to somewhere which will encourage production here:
Replace our entire tax code, with one single, across the board 100% import tariff.
Jobs will begin returning to America, immediately.
Of course there will be repercussions, but there are very significant, very real and very dangerous repercussions already to America, resulting from a process more efficient in it’s destructiveness, than if an enemy Air Force carpet bombed America’s factories.
We have destroyed the greatest manufacturing capacity, in human history.
Some day we will need that manufacturing capacity.
History has not stopped.
We need to act now, and begin bringing it back.