Yea Free Trade works so well we only have fraction of the steel industry we had 50 years ago, a small fraction. We have 22 right to work states in this country and several have very low taxes. We need to save what is left of our manufacturing base. A 10% tariff would be in order.
GWB instituted a tariff on imported steel. It didn’t create jobs, it only raised the price.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A31768-2003Sep18
We need to rein in the unions for starters. I had an uncle who worked at a steel mill in Beaumont TX. In one of their contracts, they got one week of vacation per year of service.
And we wonder why American industry cannot compete on the global market.
I would love to see our jobs come back here, if nothing else, as a part time welder, I don’t have to worry about getting a load of hot steel where they (Mexico) melted a bunch of x-ray machines with the source still in them.
Between unions, EPA and bunny huggers, I don’t see it happening.