“If we cut taxes and regulation and hold off forcing wage increases, then we’ll incentivize domestic production and domestic employment.”
And none of that can ever come close to overcoming their ability to pay some Mexican 8 dollars a day. And if the Mexican ever starts asking for 15 a day, they’ll laugh and relocate to Indonesia, or China. Then if they get uppity, they’ll go to Bangladesh.
It’s a race to the bottom for the third worlders who will never escape a slave wage. It’s destructive to American workers. It only benefits Globalists.
The only way to stop the outsourcing is to make it hurt a little to import, and to generously reward exporting.
We’ve done fine job-wise. yes, illegals are taking jobs from Americans. So punish the employers with jail time as well as a YUUGE fine and deport the illegals who are working illegally. Cut off ALL benefits of any kind to illegals.
But setting off a trade and wage war with our neighbors is simply going to hurt both economies.