Uh no, you can't judge by your protectionist circle-jerk here what the number of supporters of free trade are. The issue has been settled since the tariff disasters of the early 1800s, and then Smoot-Hawley put an exclamation point on it. Free trade is the best policy.
What can make America great again is the elimination of the corporate tax, and getting back to sensible regulation and environmental policies. Labor is a very small part of the price of a product. If labor were the determining factor of where jobs go, Mississippi would be a manufacturing giant.
Labor “costs”, I should have said.
You got it. It will all need to be completely reworked from top to bottom.
What we need is Fair Trade, not D.C.s Free Trade which has greatly contributed to the decline of Middle America.
Btw, dirt cheap labor is a huge factor and has been since the beginning of mankind. If it were not, we wouldn’t have thousands of greedy unscrupulous employers hiring low wage illegal aliens by the millions.
Yeah, we can't have people attempting to protect Americans and our economic well being.
Btw, Free Trade supporters are becoming a rarity, whether you admit it or not.
Smoot Hawlwey had a minimal impact ont the Great Depression, because ALL trade was less than 5% of the economy in 1935. So do you want white whine with your red herring?