[grb]

It appears you want me, a citizen of the state, to subsidize overpaid workers here just because they are Americans

Just how would you be subsidizing someone?

[TopQuark]

American workers are much more productive in output per hour than anyone else. If such a worker produces 10 widgets and gets $20/hour and a Malaysian worker produces only 5 widgets and gets $4/hour, the costs are $2 and $0.80, respectively. If you make me --- by law, for instance, --- buy the American good, as a consumer I spend $1.20 more that I should have, for each widget I buy. That is how one subsidizes an overpaid worker.

[MonroeDNA]

"Just how would you be subsidizing someone? "

We all subsidize overpaid workers, when we pay more for them, and get less, than we would elsewhere.

Or should my standard of living go down (less money to spend), because I should support the higher paid guy, who does less?

That is called socialism.

Marxism, actually.