No I didn't. I suggested lowering income taxes, but that alone will not bring manufacturing. Only the import tariffs will have a big enough impact. I specifically pointed out that you could eliminate all income taxes and regulations and still not be able to compete. Only an import tariff will do.
This plan will scrap the welfare state. When people have jobs, they will get off of the unemployment and the food stamps. Until then, you can't scrap the welfare state. Trying to scrap the welfare state without first fixing the economy will just cost you elections and we will have even more socialist, redistributors and communists voted into office at all levels.
Free traders are enabling big government, because they are the cause of the high unemployment and the high dependency on government.
Our founding fathers thought import tariffs were wise. And they served us well until we abandoned them in the 1960's.
None of the measures will bring about the needed change alone. There is no singular thing to fix that can make manufacturing return to the USA, and certainly raising tariffs by itself will not do it; it will instead make investment and business abandon the USA as a failed state if the high taxes, draconian regulations and welfare state are left in place, because that would be the last straw (it’s also a currency killer).
I also didn’t say that the necessary measures can occur simultaneously; but once the jobs actually come back when enough occur at once, then the welfare state will have to be given a sudden curtailment to make those jobs get filled.
I seem to recall bringing up the fact that tariffs were the federal government’s primary source of income before income taxes were foisted on the populace. That’s another measure that needs to be addressed.
However, the social structure has been damaged almost beyond repair. No strong families, no embrace of right values, and there will be no recovery either way, because the higher power will be against us.